- Senator Hays Stowe: George, I have an important education bill in trouble.
- George P. Mallon: These party regulars, they ain't like you and me. They couldn't care less about education. They're like these pigs that you don't care too much about. They got their nose in the trough, and you better keep 'em well fed!
- Senator Hays Stowe: They looked pretty well fed to me tonight.
- Martin Witt: Media image manipulation. You can take this stuff and screw it around about a dozen ways and come out with a cardboard doll that will fool some of the people most of the time.
- Jordan Boyle: Yeah, I read "The Selling of the President" too.
- Senator Hays Stowe: [Discussing Masterman] George, you tell me, what has that man ever done except sit on his father's millions trying to hatch them?
- George P. Mallon: And since when have you got religion? You are the last person on the earth to accuse anyone else of riding in on their daddy's coattails!