Citizen Cohn

Walter Winchell:
You hear what I hear? Kennedy's gonna name his brother Attorney General. Our friend J. Edgar says it's gonna be "Get Hoffa and get Cohn." F*** the little cocksucker, and all the ships at sea.

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:
If you are a friend of Americas enemies, then you're an enemy too.

Roy Marcus Cohn:
Slow down... stop... eating... me.

Ethel Rosenberg:
Here's a secret, boychick. The electricity makes everything brighter. I could see. All the Jews were afraid because if you could kill me, all the Jews would die.

Roy Marcus Cohn:
Senator, I've seen enough names working for Pat McCarran. You're going to be hauling up Jew after Jew... all those European names, and with a McCarthy and a Kennedy together, it's gonna look like an Irish/Catholic-run pogrom. That will discredit everything you do, and I know, because I'm a Jew.

Senator Joseph McCarthy:
But they're Communists. They betrayed the faith of the Fathers for this Socialist God of Iron. Now, that's the issue, not anti-Semitism.

Roy Marcus Cohn:
That's NOT what your opposition will say. It's very hard sometimes to control what an issue really is, and if your enemies can find a way to twist your motives, believe me, they will do it.

Senator Joseph McCarthy:
To the birth of Jesus.

Roy Marcus Cohn:
Right. Another tough Jew.

Roy Marcus Cohn:
Well, to me, a Commie Jew is as disgusting as a Nazi Jew would be to you.

Roy Marcus Cohn:
"Murderer's Row"? Who said that? Who called us that? Who cares. It has a nice ring to it. Anyway, they haven't seen anything yet, have they?

Roy Marcus Cohn:
So what's the indictment, Doctor? Theoretical? Principle? Personal? Give it a name.

Older Doctor:
I don't name names.

Roy Marcus Cohn:
Well, we know them already, so what's the difference?

Roy Marcus Cohn:
There are plenty of the shelves by subversives like Dashiel Hammett, but interestingly enough not a SINGLE copy of American Legion magazine!

Roy Marcus Cohn:
Everybody starts out straight. I've never heard of anybody being BORN homosexual, have you? It's just... times goes by and... and sometimes I guess... it happens to them... without knowing it.

Senator Joseph McCarthy:
What are you trying to DO to me?

Roy Marcus Cohn:
I'm trying to make a great man out of you.

Senator Joseph McCarthy:
Now, please answer this: are you now, or ever have been, a member of the Communist Party?

First Annie Lee Moss:
No, sir, I'm a Democrat!

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

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.

Senator Joseph McCarthy:
Hey, you ever listen to Bob and Ray... making fun of me? Awfully, awfully funny.

Walter Winchell:
Barely more than 100,000 votes over 70 million cast. That, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America, is a squeaker. Opinion here? A rich, Irish kid with King Midas for a daddy has just proved that in this country, you can buy anything, including the White House.

Walter Winchell:
Good luck, America.

Congressman Neil Gallagher:
Okay Roy, I understand. You don't want Bobby Kennedy in your bedroom uninvited, do you?

Roy Marcus Cohn:
I don't want Bobby Kennedy ANYWHERE.