- Margaret Pynchon: [Mrs. Pynchon has been reluctant to replace Hayward because her husband was godfather to Hayward's son] Oh, lets replace him. You know, that godson didn't turn out so well anyway.
- Billie Newman: You know Lou Grant?
- Flo Meredith: Kind of. We almost got married once.
- Billie Newman: Almost?
- Flo Meredith: Well, he asked me and I said no, and then after a while I thought it over, but I guess he thought it over too and... he never asked me again.
- Lou Grant: [on phone] Billie, I want that interview. The stuff we're getting from you we could pull off the wires.
- Billie Newman: [in telephone booth] Oh, come on, Lou, that's not fair. I hardly have time to eat. Even the other writers have trouble.
- Lou Grant: I don't care if you eat, I don't care about other writers. Now, that, that's part of your problem: you're awed by those guys. You're so impressed you can't write. Now, you got anything else for me?
- Billie Newman: [annoyed] Yeah. Flo Meredith says hi.
- Lou Grant: [brightens up] Flo? Oh, now listen, tell her -
- [Billie hangs up]
- Margaret Pynchon: Is that lunch, or a suicide attempt?
- Lou Grant: [mouth full] Pastrami, lean. Kinda lean. You wanna have?
- [offers her some]
- Margaret Pynchon: Oh no, my cardiologist is on vacation.
- Margaret Pynchon: I hear we're being swamped with complaints from groups that are backing Carlisle.
- Lou Grant: Nice to see Billie's story has impact.
- Margaret Pynchon: A runaway bus has impact, Mr. Grant, but it's rarely favorable.
- Charlie Hume: Where'd she get the tip?
- Lou Grant: A source, very reliable.
- Rubin Castillo: I thought 'Very Reliable' lived in Washington.
- Adam Wilson: Yeah, right down the street from 'High Ranking Official'.
- Lou Grant: It's a good senate race, maybe even better than the Presidential election. I think we ought to jump all over it.
- Charlie Hume: Well, we've got Hayward traveling with the campaign, he files every day.
- Lou Grant: Hayward thinks 'I Like Ike' is a hot new slogan.
- Charlie Hume: He really covers the campaing trail.
- Lou Grant: Sure, he's been on it since God was a boy.
- Billie Newman: I'm sorry, I thought you'd be up.
- Benson: Newman, is it?
- Billie Newman: Yeah.
- Benson: Look, ehm, everyone knows this is the first chance I've had to sleep in a week. I'm surprised nobody told you.
- Benson: [Animal has been using Billie's hotel room shower when Benson enters] Oh, eh, pardon me, eh... I-I'll come back.
- Billie Newman: It's okay, he comes with the room. Eh, we're just sharing temporarilly. Eh Griff, this is eh, one of our photographers, Animal.
- Dennis "Animal" Price: [extends his hand] Dennis Price. She just calls me 'Animal'.
- Billie Newman: [on phone in hotel room] We've been getting cold sandwiches for lunch.
- Lou Grant: [on other line, expressing mock sympathy] Aaah...
- Billie Newman: Nooooo, you don't understand. Up 'till now, everthing has been first cabin. We've had hot lunches and nice hotels, and now we're lucky if we get a stale cheese sandwich for lunch and the cockroaches in the rooms are so big we give them names.