“He married for love. Love. That's why he did everything. That's why he went into politics. It seems we weren't enough, he wanted all the voters to love him too.”

Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland

“- Emily Monroe Norton Kane: Charles, people will think...
- Kane: What I tell them to think.”
Ruth Warrick - Emily Monroe Norton Kane
Orson Welles - Kane

“- Kane: It's obvious the people prefer Jim Gettys to me.
- Jedediah Leland: You talk about the people as though you owned them, as though they belong to you. As long as I can remember, you've talked about giving the people their rights, as if you can make them a present of liberty, as a reward for services rendered.”
Orson Welles - Kane
Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland

“The power of television, of public exposure, it scares me. I swear, I could get the mayor's own children to throw rocks at him!”
Dom DeLuise - Melvin

“Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch TV. Americans of all ages submit to television.”
James Coburn - John Reston