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Woodward:
According to White House personnel, Hunt definitely works there as a consultant for Colson. But when I called the White House Press office, they said he hadn't worked there for three months. Then the P.R. guy said the weirdest thing to me. [reading] "I am convinced that neither Mr. Colson nor anyone else at the White House had any knowledge of, or participation in, this deplorable incident at the Democratic National Committee."

Simons:
Isn't that what you'd expect them to say?

Woodward:
Absolutely.

Rosenfeld:
So?

Woodward:
I never asked them about Watergate. I only said what were Hunt's duties at the White House. They volunteered that he was innocent when nobody asked was he guilty.

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Woodward:
What the hell were you doing rewriting my story?

Bernstein:
I sure couldn't hurt it, could I?

Woodward:
It was fine the way it was.

Bernstein:
It was bullshit the way it was.

Woodward:
I have to stand here and listen to the staff correspondent from Virginia?

Bernstein:
What have you been here, nine months? I been in this business since I was sixteen.

Woodward:
And you've had some fucking meteoric rise, that's for sure. By the time you turn forty you might be the head of the Montana bureau.

Bernstein:
You only got the job because both you and Bradlee went to Yale.

Woodward:
Bradlee went to Harvard.

Bernstein:
They're all the same, all those Ivy League places. They teach you about striped ties and suddenly you're smart.

Woodward:
I'm smart enough to know my story was solid.

Bernstein:
Mine's better.

Woodward:
No way.

Bernstein:
Read 'em both and you'll see.

[Woodward reads the stories]

Woodward:
Crap.

Bernstein:
Is mine better?

[Woodward nods]

Woodward:
What is it about my writing that's so rotten?

Bernstein:
Mainly it has to do with your choice of words.

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Woodward:
Carl?

Bernstein:
Yeah?

Woodward:
Fuck you, Carl.

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Bernstein:
You heard? They put us both on the break-in thing. Simons liked the way we worked together.

[Woodward nods]

Bernstein:
Listen, I'm sorry I said your story was bullshit.

Woodward:
It's OK; I'm sorry I called you a failure.

Bernstein:
Forget it, the main thing--did you call me a failure?

Woodward:
I was sure trying.

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Librarian:
Library.

Bernstein:
Hi. Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post. I was just wondering if you remember the names of any of the books that Howard Hunt checked out on Senator Kennedy.

Librarian:
I think I do remember, he took out a whole bunch of material. Let me just go see.

Bernstein:
What do you think?

Woodward:
Hunt doesn't seem like your ordinary consultant.

Bernstein:
Maybe a political operative of some sort.

Woodward:
A spy, you mean?

Bernstein:
It makes sense; Hunt worked for the C.I.A. and the White House was paranoid about Teddy Kennedy.

Librarian:
Mr. Bernstein?

Bernstein:
Yes, ma'am.

Librarian:
What I said before? I was wrong. The truth is, I don't have a card that Mr. Hunt took out any Kennedy material. I remember getting that material out for somebody, but it wasn't Mr. Hunt. The truth is, I've never had any requests at all from Mr. Hunt. [pause] The truth is, I don't know Mr. Hunt.

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Deep Throat:
You thought I'd help out on specifics? I'll confirm what you get, try to keep you on the right track, but that's all. Are you guys really working? [Woodward nods] How much?

Woodward:
I don't know maybe sixteen, eighteen hours a day--we've got sources at Justice, the FBI, but it's still drying up.

Deep Throat:
Then there must be something, mustn't there. Look, forget the myths the media's created about the White House--the truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Woodward:
If you don't like them, why won't you be more concrete with me?

Deep Throat:
Because the press stinks too--history on the run, that's all you're interested in. You come up with anything?

Woodward:
John Mitchell resigned as head of CREEP to spend more time with his family. That doesn't exactly have the ring of truth. Howard Hunt's been found--there was talk that his lawyer had 25 thousand in cash in a paper bag.

Deep Throat:
Follow the money. Always follow the money.

Woodward:
What do you mean? Where?

Deep Throat:
Oh, I can't tell you that.

Woodward:
But you could tell me that.

Deep Throat:
No, I have to do this my way. You tell me what you know, and I'll confirm. I'll keep you in the right direction if I can, but that's all. Just... follow the money.

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Woodward:
This man Gordon Liddy--he's going to be tried along with Hunt and the five burglars--we know he knows a lot, we just don't know what.

Deep Throat:
You changed cabs? You're sure no one followed you?

Woodward:
I did everything you said, but it all seemed--

Deep Throat:
Melodramatic? Things are past that--remember, these are men with switchblade mentalities who run the world as if it were Dodge City.

Woodward:
What's the whole thing about--do you know?

Deep Throat:
What I know, you'll have to find out on your own.

Woodward:
Liddy--you think there's a chance he'll talk?

Deep Throat:
Talk? Once, at a gathering, he put his hand over a candle. And he kept it there. He kept it right in the flame until his flesh seared. A woman who was watching asked, "What's the trick?" And he replied. "The trick is not minding." Compare dialogue from the film Lawrence of Arabia (1962):

Potter:
[trying to copy Lawrence's snuffing a match with his fingers] Oooh! It damn well hurts.

Lawrence:
Certainly it hurts.

Potter:
Well, what's the trick, then?

Lawrence:
The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.

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Woodward:
This should take only a minute, Mr. Dahlberg, but we're doing a follow-up on the break-in...and I was kind of curious about your check.

Dahlberg:
Check?

Woodward:
The twenty-five thousand dollar one....The one with your name on it...In Bernard Barker's Florida account...Bernard Barker, the Watergate burglar.

Dahlberg:
You're definitely doing a story?

Woodward:
Yes, sir.

Dahlberg:
I'm a proper citizen, I'm a decent man, I don't do anything that isn't decent or proper. [pause] I know I shouldn't tell you this...That twenty-five thousand dollars is money I collected for Nixon in this year's campaign.

Woodward:
I see. And how do you think it reached Miami?

dahlberg:
I don't know; I really don't. The last time I saw it was when I was in Washington. I gave it to the Finance department of the Committee to Re-Elect the President. How it got to that burglar, your guess is as good as mine.

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National editor:
Let me tell what happened when I was having lunch today at the Sans Souci.

Rosenfeld:
Correction--when you were drinking your lunch at the bar of the Sans Souci.

National editor:
This White House guy, a good one, a pro, came up and asked what is this Watergate compulsion with you guys and I said, well, we think it's important and he said, if it's so goddamn important, who the hell are Woodward and Bernstein?

Rosenfeld:
Ask him what he's really saying--he means take the story away from Woodstein and give it to his people at the National Desk.

National editor:
Well, I've got some pretty experienced fellas sitting around, wouldn't you say so?

Rosenfeld:
Absolutely--and that's all they do, sit sit sit--every once in a while, they call up a Senator, some reporting.

National editor:
Well, what if your boys get it wrong?

Bradlee:
Then it's our asses, isn't it?

Simons:
And we'll all have to go to work for a living.

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Foreign editor:
I don't think either Metropolitan or National should cover the story. I don't think we should cover the story, period.

Bradlee:
Go on.

Foreign editor:
It's not that we're using unnamed sources that bothers me, or that everything we print the White House denies, or that almost no other papers are reprinting our stuff.

Simons:
What then?

Foreign editor:
I don't believe the goddamn story, Howard, it doesn't make sense.

Bradlee:
It will, it just hasn't bottomed out yet, give it time.

Foreign editor:
Ben, Jesus, there are over two thousand reporters in this town, are there five on Watergate? Where did we suddenly get all this wisdom?

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Bernstein:
This is practically a high school reunion for us, Jane--I would have sprung for a classier place.

Jane:
Anyplace really public, they'd know about it--they know everything at the Committee, Carl.

Bernstein:
You don't really think you're being followed?

Jane:
This girlfriend of mine at the Committee, the other day she went back to the D.A. to tell the things the FBI didn't ask her. That night, her boss, he knew what she'd done. They control everything; that's how they know it all.

Bernstein:
FBI too?

Jane:
You don't believe me? Well, I was working the weekend of the break-in and my God, all the executives were running around like crazy--you had to practically wait in line to use the shredding machine--and when the FBI came to investigate, they never even asked me about it.

Bernstein:
If you don't like it down there, why don't you quit?

Jane:
I don't know what they'd do to me.

Bernstein:
Hey, easy...

Jane:
We're a long way from high school, Carl, and I'm scared.

...

Jane:
They found out I saw you. They wanted to know everything. Don't call me again.

Bernstein:
I can help if you'll...

Jane:
Stay away from me, Carl!

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Woodward:
A friend at the Committee told us to contact you.

Woman:
Who was it?

Bernstein:
We never reveal our sources, which is why you can talk to us.

Woodward:
It's safe, try it, you'll see.

Bernstein:
We understand your problem...

Woodward:
You believe in the President, you wouldn't ever want to do anything disloyal.

Bernstein:
We appreciate your position--really.

Woman:
You people--you think that you can come into someone's life, squeeze what you want, then get out. [to Bernstein] You don't appreciate a goddamn thing, mister. [to Woodward] And you don't understand nothing. But the Committee's briefed us on you--so get the hell out of here. Do you like scaring the life out of decent people?--'cause if you don't, in the name of God--stop it!

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Man:
I know who you are and I'm not afraid but that don't mean I'll talk to you either--you're just a couple Democrats out to stop Nixon getting re-elected.

Woodward:
Democrats?

Man:
That's right.

Bernstein:
I hate both parties.

Woodward:
And I'm a Republican.

Bernstein:
Republican?

Woodward:
Sure.

Bernstein:
Who'd you vote for?

Woodward:
When?

Bernstein:
'68.

Woodward:
Nixon.

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Nixon:
[on television] No one in this administration, presently employed, was involved in this very bizarre incident. What really hurts in matters of this sort is not the fact that they occur, because overzealous people in campaigns do things that are wrong. What really hurts is if you try to cover it up.

Woodward:
Did he just say what I think he said?

Bernstein:
You voted for him.

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Bernstein:
I want you to know that I understand why you're afraid--a lot of good people down there at the Committee are afraid. I'm really sorry for what you're being put through.

Bookkeeper:
All those articles you people write--where do you find that stuff?

Bernstein:
We don't tell anyone that. Which is why you can talk to us. And if we can't verify what you say someplace else, we don't print it. That's another reason you can relax.

Bookkeeper:
I'm relaxed--light your cigarette.

Bernstein:
You were Hugh Sloan's bookkeeper when he worked for Maurice Stans at Finance, and we were sort of wondering, did you go work for Stans immediately after Sloan quit or was there a time lapse?

Bookkeeper:
I never worked for Sloan or Stans.

Bookkeeper's sister:
Would you like some coffee or anything?

Bernstein:
Please, yes, thank you. Can I sit down for a minute?

Bookkeeper:
One minute but then--

Bernstein:
Right, right, I've got to go. Why did you lie just then? I was just curious--you don't do it well, so I wondered. Have you been threatened, if you told the truth, is that it?

Bookkeeper:
No... never in so many words...

Bernstein:
It's obvious you want to talk to someone--well, I'm someone.

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Bernstein:
The General Accounting report said there was a 350 thousand cash slush fund in Stans' safe. Did you know about that from the beginning?

Bookkeeper:
There are too many people watching me--they know I know a lot.

Bernstein:
It was all in hundreds, wasn't it?

Bookkeeper:
A lot of it was. I just thought it was sort of an all-purpose political fund--you know, for taking fat cats to dinner, things like that.

Bernstein:
Could buy a lot of steaks, 350,000 dollars.

Bookkeeper:
I can't be positive that it was used for the break-in but people sure are worried.

Bernstein:
Which people?

Bookkeeper:
The ones who could disburse the money....I don't want to say anymore.

...

Bernstein:
You haven't finished telling me about the money.

Bookkeeper:
Omigod, there was so much of it, six million came in one two-day period--six million cash, we couldn't find enough places to put it. I thought it was all legal, I guess I did, til after the break-in, when I remembered Gordon got so much of it.

Bernstein:
Gordon Liddy, you mean?

Bookkeeper:
[nods] It was all so crazy--the day after the break-in he gave us a speech, bouncing up and down on his heels in that loony way of his--Gordon told us not to let Jim McCord ruin everything--don't let one bad apple spoil the barrel, he said. You just know that when Gordon Liddy's calling someone a bad apple, something's wrong somewhere. It's all so rotten... and getting worse... and all I care about is Hugh Sloan. His wife was going to leave him if he didn't stand up and do what was right. And he quit. He quit because he saw it and didn't want any part of it.

Bernstein:
Think Sloan's being set up as a fall guy for John Mitchell? Sometimes it looks that way.

Bookkeeper:
If you guys... if you guys could just get John Mitchell... that would be beautiful.

All the President's Men  Movie Quote

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Bernstein:
We were hoping that maybe now you could... We know why you left the Committee. We know you're not guilty of anything. But we know you know who is.

Sloan:
Look, come in. We'll have to be quiet--my wife's asleep...I'd like to talk to you, I really would, but my lawyers say I shouldn't until after the Watergate trial.

Woodward:
You handed out the money. Maybe there's a legitimate explanation for the way it was done.

Bernstein:
Then again, maybe things are even worse than we've written...

Sloan:
They're worse. That's why I quit.

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Sloan:
Try and understand this. I'm a decent Republican. I believe in Richard Nixon. I worked in the White House four years--so did my wife. What happened on June 17 I don't think the President knew anything about. Some of his men I'm not so sure of.

Bernstein:
Do you think the truth will come out at the trial?

Sloan:
That's another of the things I'm not so sure of.

Bernstein:
Because people at the Committee were told to lie to the prosecutors?

Sloan:
We were never told flat out "Don't talk." But the message was clear.

Bernstein:
To cover up?

Sloan:
Well, they sure didn't ask us to come forward and tell the truth.

Woodward:
Does "they" mean the White House?

Sloan:
As opposed to the Committee? The Committee's not an independent operation. Everything is cleared with the White House. I don't think that the FBI or the prosecutors understand that.

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Steff:
[to the players in the locker room] Listen up, ladies. Brian Riley is going to USC, motherfuckers!

Brian:
All I have to do is maintain my fantastic 2.0 grade-point average, and everything is cool.

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Steff:
He didn't quit.

Nickerson:
What did you say?

Steff:
Salvucci, he didn't quit. None of us quit. I don't know. We beat those guys asses up and down that field tonight! We got nothing to be ashamed of, right? Isn't that right? Maybe the scoreboard doesn't say it, but we won that game. We held them. It was just a fluke. That's all. It's just a fluke.

Nickerson:
A fluke? That pass-interference penalty was no fluke. If you had done it the way I taught you, they never would've been down there in the first place, and they never would've scored, and we would've won that game! You're just as responsible as he is.

Steff:
Oh, yeah? If you would've had Rifleman hold the ball, then we would've won the game. We didn't quit. You quit!

Nickerson:
Get your stuff and get the hell out of here right now.

Steff:
What?

Nickerson:
You heard me. You get out of here. You're through. You're off the team.

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Nickerson:
Djordjevic! I'd like to talk to you.

Steff:
We got nothing to talk about.

Nickerson:
Then where are you going?

Steff:
Where am I going?

Nickerson:
Yeah.

Steff:
No place, man. I mean, uh, Shadow, he's going to West Virginia. He just found out tonight. And, Tank's going to Furman. You knew that already. And you're going to Cal Poly. And Mouse, Mouse is going to college, he's gonna play ball. Me, I'm just gonna hang out here, I don't know, ya know? Hey, Nickerson, you lied about me. You blackballed me. "Together." Remember that? "Together. Together. Together." That was all just bullshit.

Nickerson:
What?

Steff:
You're full of shit, man. You just sit there in your office. A scholarship here, no scholarship there. He goes. He stays. Who in the hell gave you that power? You're just a coach. You're just a high school football coach. I mean, I don't know. What, what, I don't know. [runs a few steps] You know, Nickerson, you are not God! Huh? You're just a typing teacher! [runs off]

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[Anita is trying to sneak into the house without being heard, but a bell on the door handle falls.]

Elaine:
Anita?

Anita:
Hi Mom.

Elaine:
You hungry? I made soy cutlets.

Anita:
No thanks, I already ate.

[Elaine gets close to Anita's face.]

Elaine:
You've been kissing.

Anita:
No I haven’t.

Elaine:
Yes you have, I can tell.

Anita:
You can’t tell.

Elaine:
Not only can I tell I know who it is.

[Anita starts to walk away.]

Elaine:
Whatcha’ got under your coat?

[Anita removes the Simon and Garfunkel record she was hiding under her coat, and hands it to Elaine.]

Anita:
It’s unfair we can’t listen to our own music.

Elaine:
That is because it is about drugs and promiscuous sex.

Anita:
Simon and Garfunkel is poetry.

Elaine:
Yes, it is poetry about drugs and promiscuous sex. Honey, they’re on pot.

Anita:
First it was butter, then sugar, white flour, bacon, eggs, bologna; then it was celebrating Christmas, on a day in September, when you knew it wouldn’t be commercialized. What else are you gonna ban?

Elaine:
I am trying to give you the cliff notes on how to live life in this world.

Anita:
We’re like nobody else I know!

Elaine:
[to herself] I’m a college professor, why can’t I teach my own kids. Use me.

Anita:
Darrell says that you use knowledge to keep me down. He says that I’m a yes person and you are trying to raise us in a no environment!

Elaine:
Well, clearly no is a word Darrell doesn’t hear often.

Anita:
[Frustrated and yelling] I can’t live here! I hate you, even William hates you!

William:
I don’t hate her.

Anita:
You do hate her; you don’t even know the truth.

Elaine:
Honey, don’t be a drama queen.

Anita:
Feck you!!

Elaine:
Hey!!

Anita:
This is a house of lies! [Storms off to her bedroom.]

Elaine:
There it is. Your sister used the F word.

William:
I think she said feck.

Elaine:
What’s the difference?

William:
The letter U.

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Lester Bangs:
What, are you like the star of your school?

William:
They hate me.

Lester Bangs:
You'll meet them all again on their long journey to the middle.

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William:
[on the phone with his mother, Elaine] I'm fine! I'm fine! I'm flying back on Monday morning. I'll only miss one test. I'll make it up.

Russell:
Tell her you're a slave to the groove. You can't help it!

William:
[to Russell] No. [Russell reaches for the phone] No, Russell... Russell, no! [Russell grabs the phone.]

Russell:
Hi, Mom, it's Russell Hammond! I play guitar in Stillwater. It's my fault. How does it feel to be the mother of the future of rock journalism?... Hello? [Elaine says nothing.] You've got a great kid. Nothing to worry about. We're taking care of him. And you should come to a show some time — join the circus!

Elaine:
Listen to me: your charm doesn't work on me. I'm onto you. Of course you like him.

Russell:
Well, yeah.

Elaine:
He worships you people! And that's fine with you, as long as he helps make you rich.

Russell:
Rich? I don't think so—

Elaine:
Listen to me. He's a smart, goodhearted, 15-year-old kid with infinite potential. This is not some apron-wearing mother you're talking to. I know about your Valhalla of decadence, and I shouldn't have let him go. He is not ready for your world of compromised values and diminished brain cells that you throw away like confetti. Am I speaking clearly to you?

Russell:
[stands up straight] Yes, ma'am.

Elaine:
If you break his spirit, harm him in any way, keep him from his chosen profession — which is law, something you may not value, but I do — you will meet the voice on the other end of this telephone, and it will not be pretty. Do we understand each other?

Russell:
Uh, yes, ma'am.

Elaine:
I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. "Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid." Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to be a person of substance, Russell. Get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke. [hangs up on Russell, who is speechless]

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