“- Dr. Hartz: And I am Dr. Egon Hartz; you may have heard of me.
- Gilbert: Not the brain surgeon?
- Dr. Hartz: Yes, the same.
- Gilbert: Yes, you flew over to England the other day and operated on one of our cabinet ministers.
- Dr. Hartz: Oh, yes.
- Gilbert: Tell me, did you find anything?”
Paul Lukas - Dr. Hartz
Michael Redgrave - Gilbert

“- Geoff Montgomery: It's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.
- Larry Lawrence: You mean like Democrats?”
Richard Carlson - Geoff Montgomery
Bob Hope - Larry Lawrence

“Don't worry about me, Gettys! Don't worry about me! I'm Charles Foster Kane! I'm no cheap, crooked politician, trying to save himself from the consequences of his crimes!”

Orson Welles - Kane

“I entered this campaign with one purpose only, to point out and make public the dishonesty, the downright villainy of Boss Jim W. Gettys' political machine, now in complete control of the government of this state.”
Orson Welles - Kane

“- Nick: There are lots of things worse than movies: politicians, wars, forest fires, famine, plague, sickness, pain, warts, politicians...
- Jack Slater: You already mentioned them.
- Nick: I know I did. They are twice as bad as anything else.”
Robert Prosky - Nick
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Jack Slater