Prince of the City (1981)

James Tolkan: Assistant U.S. Atty. George Polito

Quotes 

• Gus Levy : [grabbing Polito by the lapels]  I'll tell you what I'm in a position to do, and that's throw you out the fuckin' window. It's only the fifth floor, but I'll try to aim you so you land on your pointed little head.

  District Attorney Polito : Levy, you can easily avoid trial. All you have to do is cooperate.

  Gus Levy : Fuck it. You got your mind made up to try me? Go ahead and try me. But not for a lousy 400 dollars. At least get me for assault.

  [knees Polito in the groin] 

• District Attorney Polito : When I became a prosecuting attoney I acepted the fact that it was not a popularity contest. I think some of you guys have it all mixed up. You've fallen in love by this perpetrator, you feel responsible for him, you want him to love you. But you are prosecutors sworn to prosecute the guilty. Ciello is an law officer who has admitted to over fourty instances of perjury. My father, my grandfather was a lawyer and my father was a lawyer and I became a lawyer... because the law means everything to me and if any arm of the law is corrupt nothing can work, nothing. It is simple as that.