- Cub Reporter Ames: I told you not to look after me... Why did you do it?
- Helen Hayes: Because - -- because you affect me like a mammy song.
- [first lines]
- [McQuigg ducks into a doorway when one of Scari's henchmen shoots at but purposely misses him. Scarsi emerges from behind the door]
- Nick Scarsi: Hello, Mac.
- Police Captain James McQuigg: Hello, Nick.
- Nick Scarsi: Take a tip, Mac... change your racket.
- Police Captain James McQuigg: I like my racket... and I haven't shot yet.
- [last lines]
- Detective: What now, Captain?
- Police Captain James McQuigg: [exhausted] I'd like a little sleep... but by the time I get through with the coroner and the rest of the public servants... it'll be time to go to Mass.
- Police Captain James McQuigg: [to Nick] Chick won't be here tonight.
- [Chick arrives]
- Police Captain James McQuigg: All right, Nick... That's a horse on me.
- Pratt: Captain, you've got to talk - we need a story.
- Police Captain James McQuigg: Start another anti-smoking campaign.
- Pratt: New to the game, aren't you?
- Cub Reporter Ames: Oh no!... I was on the Omaha Bee for a month.
- Miller: Fancy that!
- Helen Hayes: [Driving in Joe's car] You'll be stopping next - telling me you're out of gas.
- Joe Scarsi: That little glow-worm on your engagement finger ought to prove I'm serious.
- Helen Hayes: No, Joe - you can't beat the wedding bells.
- Nick Scarsi: I sent my driver in here to see that Hayes girl... Did he do something wrong?
- Police Captain James McQuigg: I thought he was in the pen for some bank job.
- Nick Scarsi: He must've got paroled.
- Police Captain James McQuigg: Yeh... A lot do, since they equipped that penitentiary with revolving doors.
- Nick Scarsi: Are you trying to frame *me*?
- Police Captain James McQuigg: In purple satin, under glass.
- Helen Hayes: So you're Scarsi, the Awful - - afraid of women, but death on kids! Nobody ought to be afraid of you... Not when you had to slug this baby!
- Nick Scarsi: What'd he get in my way for?
- Helen Hayes: There's your confession!
- Police Captain James McQuigg: All of which proves that women are still poison to you.
- Nick Scarsi: I'll show you what it means to fool around with *me*!
- District Attorney Welch: Who'd believe you?
- Nick Scarsi: I've got everything on paper - - ready for a double-cross by you! How you made that high hat grand jury fold up last month... How the Old Man had that kid in the Treasurer's Office *accidentally* killed by a train! Who do you suppose I pay for the breweries I own? Who do you suppose I pay for the alcohol I get? I'll talk your whole rotten Organization into suicide!
- Helen Hayes: So it's dog eat dog to the last ditch, eh, Captain?
- Police Captain James McQuigg: You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
- Helen Hayes: You and me both, Policeman.
- Detective: Scarsi's sending a load of beer through Eighth and Grand.
- Police Captain James McQuigg: There'll be hell popping!... That's below Spike Corcoran's dead-line.
- Joe Scarsi: Are there going to be any women at the party?
- Nick Scarsi: No women! Women are poison to me.
- Helen Hayes: You can get away with murder, but you can't pull that stuff on me!
- Nick Scarsi: Lay off this kid, you dirty little gold digger! He's not in the racket - and he's not going to be!
- Police Captain James McQuigg: This is the last murder you'll ever get away with in my district! I'm going to drive you out!
- Nick Scarsi: I've given you lots of chances - but you're just a dumb harp. So *you're* going out!
- Pratt: [to Capt. McQuigg] So, if you don't get Scarsi before Tuesday, the Organization wins the election - and Nick stays in power.
- Patrolman Johnson: We can't get this bird's name.
- Police Captain James McQuigg: Bring him in - he'll talk.
- Patrolman Johnson: Come on, Francis!
- Cub Reporter Ames: Oh! - hello!
- Helen Hayes: Didn't your mother tell you not to speak to strange ladies?
- Cub Reporter Ames: Don't think I'm fresh, but I feel I know you. I heard you sing.
- Patrolman Johnson: That's the dame he walked... She saw the accident.
- Police Captain James McQuigg: How did it happen?
- Helen Hayes: Sorry, Policeman, but I'm tongue-tied.
- Police Captain James McQuigg: Put her downstairs with the other ladies... She'll talk!
- Pratt: No wonder Nick says women are poison to him.
- Police Captain James McQuigg: This one may be dynamite!
- Police Captain James McQuigg: Left flat! - - And you thought Joe was going to marry you. And you're afraid to talk. Yellow - for fear of a couple of bragging punks!
- Helen Hayes: You're a liar!
- Police Captain James McQuigg: You stay in. You're a witness against Scarsi... If you're out tonight, you'll be on a slab by morning.
- Patrolman Johnson: It looks like I'm yellow, hiding in here!
- Nick Scarsi: Did you imagine I'd let any lousy politicians, who'd knock their own mothers over the head for a vote, tell *me* what to do?
- Nick Scarsi: I'm off you worms! I'm going to deliver my Wards to the reform gang for a laugh! To lick *you*, we'll have an election for a change that's square!