- Bud Sutter: [Discussing the outbreak of violence] They were wrong to break up those barricades, and they know they were wrong. But they don't know how else to fight city hall.
- Stoney Burke: It's time they found out city hall is nobody to fight.
- Dr. Glen Elden: Always, Stoney? Every time? Is city hall always right?
- Stoney Burke: No, sir, no, sir. I'd say they're wrong a good part of the time. But you don't fight 'em with mob violence.
- Bud Sutter: Well, how do you fight them?
- Stoney Burke: With votes!
- Tack Reynolds: He thinks just because I'm a mechanic I'm low class or something.
- Stoney Burke: Well, Henry Ford was a mechanic.
- Tack Reynolds: You don't have to pat me on the shoulder.
- Stoney Burke: Ohh, I'm not not patting you on the shoulder. I can't get near it; you got a chip on it as big as a barn.
- Ves Painter: Looks to me like there's a little conflict of interest here.
- Red: What's that mean?
- Ves Painter: Well, that's when you dip both hands and both feet into the cookie jar all at the same time.
- Ves Painter: [as the police take a young racer into custody] You gonna let him run him in, Stoney?
- Stoney Burke: He's wearing a police badge, Ves. Right or wrong, the only way you can straighten it out is with a lawyer.
- Stoney Burke: It's a free country, even if it goes wrong sometimes. But if a man's in the clear, there's no power in this land that can keep him locked up. None.