“- Gandalf: I have come for your aid Saruman the White, in troubled times. The Nine are abroad, darkness approaches, the Black Riders!
- Saruman: Is that all the news you have for me then?
- Gandalf: Is that not enough? Sauron is moving at last!”
William Squire - Gandalf
Fraser Kerr - Saruman

“You didn't think all hell wouldn't break loose? You didn't think every fucking fed wouldn't drop what they were doing and dive in to protect one of their own? What do you morons think, that this is little Italy? Wake up! This is the twenty-fuckin'-first century!”
Al Pacino - Starkman

“- 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

“News is what happens. Time is only an illusion!”
John Philliber - Pop Benson