“When I was a reporter we fucked each other and didn't write about it.”
Alfred Molina - Ben Bradlee

“I’m a newspaperwoman and I have an obligation to report the facts.”
Phyllis Coates - Lois Lane

“Now them two reporters from back east … they’ll try to stop us, like as not, but we ain’t gonna be stopped. This is our town. We don’t need any strangers telling us what to do.”

Jeff Corey - Luke Benson

“- Helen St. James: I live here now. I have a job.
- Don Birnam: Doing what?
- Helen St. James: Time Magazine.
- Don Birnam: Oh, Time Magazine. Perhaps you can do something for me?
- Helen St. James: Yes?
- Don Birnam: Could you help me become Man-of-the-Year?”
Jane Wyman - Helen St. James
Ray Milland - Don Birnam

“All columnists should be beaten to a pulp and converted back into paper!”
Walter Hampden - Oliver Larrabee