Favorite Lines

Winn Quantrill defines the family politics: "When I say liberal, of course, I don't mean left-wingers or anything like that...I mean, you know - we're for civil rights!" (That's sticking your neck out...)

Sidney Schaefer on the President: "You'd think that he'd spend his time worrying about China, or Russia? - hasn't slept in eight nights worrying about Libya!"

Agent Ballantine (being made to fetch some bullets): "Sure, Sullivan. I'll go get them. After all, *I'm* just the squire. *You're* the knight. *You* have the license to *kill*!"

WQ: "Total Sound!"

Agent Sullivan: "Blue ice cubes? How degenerate!"

"Take that you hostile son of a bitch!"
"Don't say *beep*. Say Chinese restaurant. *beep* is bigoted."

I enjoy keeping busy. Satan finds work for idle hands.

Hands down, the remarkably prescient one from Kropotkin:

"This isn't a case of a world struggle between two divergent ideologies, of different economic systems. Every day your country becomes more socialistic and mine becomes more capitalistic. Pretty soon we will meet in the middle and join hands."

This film is chock full of great lines as others have already listed but considering this is a frenetic comedy I think my favorite part is the great Godfrey (you can call me God) Cambridge's session when he tells of learning about the racial divide as a five year old. Very poignant. I had forgotten that this was written and directed by Theodore J. Flicker who also did one of the best comedies on TV, Barney Miller.

"Right-wing extremists. Disarm them, and us liberals will disarm."

"Want a DRAFT beer"?

"Poppy-cock"

One that just 'gets' me, when Schaefer finds himself in a bus with a rock band. Hippie girl says "He's pretty. My name is Snow White. Isn't he pretty, Old Wrangler?" He replies "We're all pretty, Snow White", smiling beatifically and said with utter sincerity. I can't recall another halfway mainstream movie of the time treating hippies so positively and sympathetically.