- Desk Sergeant: It's a good idea too, havin' a boy like that as chief. Teachs'em discipline and how to be a good, law-abiding citizen. Not that I ain't saying adults don't need disciplinin'. Take you, for instance. If you'd a been the chief when you was a kid, you wouldn't go around breakin' the law.
- Edgar Kennedy: Oh I wouldn't, would I? Say, how do you know I was breaking the law?
- Desk Sergeant: People don't come in here to pick no flowers.
- Edgar Kennedy: [gestures to a group of young boys passing by; facetiously] That must be the city council.
- Secretary: Yes, sir.
- Edgar's Father-in-Law: Aren't they awfully young to be city councilmen?
- Secretary: No, not at all. The mayor is only 10.