“- Lorraine Danel: You've tried everything else and failed. No matter what you do, you'll always fail!
- Stephen Danel: I've never failed and I never will fail.”

Rochelle Hudson - Lorraine Danel
Peter Lorre - Stephen Danel

“We haven't got any use for gamblers around here. You've done your best to ruin baseball, and horse racing, and this is one game that's clean and is gonna stay clean.”
Pat O'Brien - Knute Rockne

“If it wasn't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition.”

William Demarest - Skeeters - The Politician

“- Aktionär Fränklin: I'll give you $150.000 for a place in a lifeboat.
- 1st Officer Petersen: It's useless. Women and children will be saved first.”
Walter Steinbeck - Aktionär Fränklin
Hans Nielsen - 1st Officer Petersen

“- Scott Dantley: I know your father. Great senator, great American, outstanding human being.
- Jack Issel: He's managed to stay out of jail despite the bribery, corruption, tax evasion, solicitation, and domestic abuse charges that have been brought against him. At least me and my mom are proud of him for that.”
Michael O'Donoghue - Scott Dantley
Judge Reinhold - Jack Issel