- Lawyer: Tell us what you know, I said! Never mind what you think!
- Mr. Hemingway: Excuse me, boss. I ain't no lawyer. I can't talk without thinkin'.
- Mike: [Patsy Gargan's just arrived at the reform school. He stops his car, and out tumbles his drunk pal, Mike] Where's the Fagin that runs this joint?
- Patsy: [after trying to talk to the judge about the bad situation at the reform school, and getting nowhere, a very angry Patsy heads to see Johnson - the ward 's man who swung him the gig] Listen; Johnson; who is this 'judge Gilbert'? What's he got to do with this, anyhow? I tell you what I want, and I'm gonna get it!
- Louis Johnson: Now listen, Patsy...
- Patsy: [Waves his gloved hand in the air] I've been listening long enough.
- [Points a gloved finger at Johnson's throat]
- Patsy: I didn't squawk when you crossed me out of that park department job, did I?
- Louis Johnson: No, this is different. The judge don't want you.
- Patsy: Oh! He 'don't want'? Well, I'mi telling you what I want, and I'm gonna get it!
- Louis Johnson: Now, my boy...
- Patsy: [cuts Johnson off, and points a gloved finger right at his throat] Or else I take my vote and peddle them elsewhere!
- Hopkins: Oh, listen Pat...
- Patsy: [Without even glancing, he pushes his face away] Now, no stalling. I won't stand for it.
- Louis Johnson: It's not so easy. You'll have to go to the old man and see the governor.
- Patsy: Well, go to him! Go to the president. I don't care where you go. I want the job of running that joint, and I'm gonna run it my way
- Louis Johnson: What way do you want it?
- Patsy: That's my business. Now, do I get it, or don't I?
- Louis Johnson: All right. Suppose we get it for you. You think you can hold your voters in line down here while your away?
- Patsy: Leave that to me I haven't failed yet, have I? Now come on. How about it?
- Louis Johnson: All right, Patsy. I'll speak to the old man
- Patsy: Now your talking, sweetheart.
- [Patsy grabs some cigars from the desk and passes them out, and walks out of the office]
- Patsy: .
- Hopkins: [Night at the reform school's front gate.the guards in the high tower hears a car's engine revving towards them, then .it stops at the gate and he shines a light on it, and barks an order] Who's there?
- Patsy: [Sticks his fedora - covered head out the driver's window] Gargan, the new depot commissioner, you screw.
- [Smiling]
- Hopkins: Oh, open the gate, Charlie,.it's Mr Gargan, the new deputy commissioner.
- Patsy: Where's Thompson's office?
- Hopkins: Yeah, third building on the right, Mr Gargan.
- Patsy: You said it, beezer.
- Thompson: [after Jimmy tries to escape] Yeah, well, you take this boy now. He comes up here a product of the worst environment in the world, the city slums...
- Patsy: Well, that's where I come from. There's nothing the matter with me, is there?
- Thompson: [Sheepishly] Oh, well, of course, I...
- Patsy: Aww, nuts.
- Mike: What's the matter? Don't you like it?
- Blonde with Mike: Like it? Why you dirty rat, I've got a notion to slug you right in the button.
- Mike: Lay off. Lay off. You don't see me climbing any trees, do you?
- Blonde with Mike: No. You ain't smart enough.