Citizen Cohn (1992 TV Movie)

Ed Flanders: Joseph N. Welch

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• Roy Marcus Cohn : Well, maybe I'm a little nearsighted. I cannot see the picture.

  Joseph N. Welch : Yes, I do believe you have betrayed a certain nearsightedness...

• [the ghost of Joseph Welch speaks to Cohn on his deathbed] 

  Joseph N. Welch : Well, how did I do, Mr. Cohn?

  Roy Marcus Cohn : The trial is over. You got McCarthy... but you didn't get me.

  Joseph N. Welch : You think you're on trial here? What would you be on trial for? And might I say, Mr. Cohn, for your sexual predilections I bear no grudge, no malice, nor for the hot, secret practices of your friends, not Mr. Hoover, not His Excellency the Cardinal. But shame, Mr. Cohn, for persecuting in public those who are no different than you.

  Roy Marcus Cohn : [denying]  I'm not gay.

  Older Doctor : Suuuure. And you're dying of mumps.

• Joseph N. Welch : Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you no sense of decency?

• Joseph N. Welch : Until this moment, I never really gauged your recklessness, or your cruelty. Fred Fisher is beginning what looks to be a brilliant career with us. And when I asked him to come here and assist us, he told me in college he briefly belonged to the Lawyer's Guild, the organization to which you refer. I told him that, um, I just don't think I'm going to use you on this case, because it might go out on the networks, and that would just hurt like the dickens. So, Senator, I sent him back to Boston. Little did I dream that you would be so cruel, and so reckless as to do injury to this lad. It's true, he works for us. It's true that he will continue to work for us, and it's true I fear he will always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by YOU. Let us not assassinate this lad any further, Senator? You've done enough! Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you NO sense of DECENCY?

• Roy Marcus Cohn : Well, I would say I happen to know that Colonel Bradley had a good steak dinner that night and perhaps he was thinking about that.

  Joseph N. Welch : If Bradley was thinking of a steak, Schine must have been considering a whole haunch of beef, wouldn't he?