All the King's Men (1949)
Broderick Crawford: Willie Stark
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Quotes
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Jack Burden : I tell you there's nothing on the judge.
Willie Stark : Jack, there's something on everybody. Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption.
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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.
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Willie Stark : [to his fellow 'hicks' after surviving an impeachment trial in the state senate] They tried to ruin me, but they are ruined. They tried to ruin me because they didn't like what I have done. Do you like what I've done?
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Willie Stark : It could have been - whole world - Willie Stark.
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Willie Stark : Do you know what good comes out of?
Adam Stanton : You tell me, Mr. Stark.
Willie Stark : Out of bad, that's what good comes out of. Because you can't make it out of anything else. You didn't know that, did you?
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Willie Stark : I don't need money. People gives me things because they believe in me.
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[Willie arrives at the statehouse as the impeachment is proceeding]
Willie Stark : What's the score?
Tiny Duffy : They're lined up against you solid. They had a meeting.
Willie Stark : How do you know? Were you there?
Tiny Duffy : Me? What would I be doing there?
Willie Stark : Selling me out.
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Willie Stark : This much I swear to you. These things you shall have: I'm going to build a hospital. The biggest that money can buy. And it will belong to you. That any man, woman, and child who is sick or in pain can go through those doors and know that everything will be done for them that man can do to heal sickness, to ease pain. Free. Not as a charity. But as a right. And it is your right. Do you hear me? It is your right. And it is your right that every child should have a complete education. That any man who produce us anything can take it to market without paying toll. And no poor man's land or farm can be taxed or taken away from him. And it is the right of the people that they shall not be deprived of hope.
Anne Stanton : Does he mean it, Jack?
Adam Stanton : That's his bribe.
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Jack Burden : [inside the governor's swerving car being driven at dangerous speeds by Sugar] You'll never live to be impeached!
Willie Stark : Boy, I'll live to be President!
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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?
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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!
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Willie Stark : You wanna know what my platform is? Here it is. I'm gonna soak the fat boys and spread it out thin.
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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.
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Sadie Burke : Be smart. Play square with him. You're gonna need people like us around.
Willie Stark : Are you sure?
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Willie Stark : I'm going to run. You can't stop me. I'm going to run even if I don't get a single vote!
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Jack Burden : He roared across the state making speeches. All of them adding up to the same thing: 'It's not me they're after. It's you!' Willie hollered 'foul.' He knew if you hollered hard and loud enough... people begin to believe. Just in case they didn't, he organized demonstrations.
Willie Stark : Tell the boys to get the hicks out. Bring them in from the sticks. Empty the pool halls. Turn em out! Turn the yokels out!
Jack Burden : In case anyone hollered back, he organized spontaneous slugging. Willie pulled every trick he ever knew and added a few more.
