Broderick Crawford
(as Willie Stark)
Judge Monte Stanton:
Pillsbury is guilty. As Attorney General of this state, it's my job to prosecute.
Willie Stark: Judge, you talk like Pillsbury was human. He isn't. He's a thing. You don't prosecute an adding machine if a spring goes busted and makes a mistake. You fix it. Well, I fixed him.
Willie Stark: Judge, you talk like Pillsbury was human. He isn't. He's a thing. You don't prosecute an adding machine if a spring goes busted and makes a mistake. You fix it. Well, I fixed him.
Broderick Crawford
(as Willie Stark)
Willie Stark:
Here it is, you hicks! Nail up anybody who stands in your way! Nail up Joe Harrison! Nail up McMurphy! And if they don't deliver, give me the hammer, and I'll do it myself!
Broderick Crawford
(as Willie Stark)
Broderick Crawford
(as Willie Stark)
Willie Stark:
I'm the hick they were gonna use to split the hick vote. But I'm standing right here now on my hind legs! Even a dog can learn to do that. Are you standing on your hind legs? Have you learned to do that yet?
Broderick Crawford
(as Willie Stark)
Broderick Crawford
(as Willie Stark)
Willie Stark:
Jack, there's something on everybody. Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption. He passes from the stink of the dydie to the stench of the shroud. There's ALWAYS something.
Broderick Crawford
(as Willie Stark)
Willie Stark:
Now, shut up! Shut up, all of you! Now listen to me, you hicks. Yeah, you're hicks too, and they fooled you a thousand times like they fooled me. But this time, I'm going to fool somebody. I'm going to stay in this race. I'm on my own and I'm out for blood.
Broderick Crawford
(as Willie Stark)
Willie Stark:
You wanna know what my platform is? Here it is. I'm gonna soak the fat boys and spread it out thin.
John Ireland
(as Jack Burden)
Jack Burden:
Anne, Burden's Landing is a place on the Moon. It isn't real. It doesn't exist. It's me pretending to live on what I earn. It's my mother trying to keep herself young and drinking herself old. It's you and Adam living in this house as though your father were still alive. It's an old man like the judge dreaming of the past.
Broderick Crawford
(as Willie Stark)
Sadie Burke:
Be smart. Play square with him. You're gonna need people like us around.
Willie Stark: Are you sure?
Willie Stark: Are you sure?
