“If you try and make this job about the money, you'll be nothing but miserable, 'cause we don't get the money - never have, never will.”

Robert Duvall - Bernie White

“- Walter Burns: You've got the brain of a pancake. This isn't just a story you're covering - it's a revolution. This is the greatest yarn in journalism since Livingstone discovered Stanley.
- Hildy Johnson: It's the other way around.”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“- John Jones: Foreign correspondent, huh?
- Mr. Powers: No, reporter. I don't want correspondence, I want news.”

Joel McCrea - John Jones
Harry Davenport - Mr. Powers

“Yes, yes, I hate you all. When I'm President I'll have you all killed.”

Jay O. Sanders - Senator John McGlory

“What is it with reporters? You take one person's tragedy and force the world to experience it, spread it like sickness.”
Brian Cox - Richard Morgan