Lawyer: The unlimited checkbook. That's how Big Tobacco wins every time on everything, they spend you to death. Six hundred million a year in outside legal - Chadbourne-Park, uh, Ken Starr's firm, Kirkland & Ellis? Listen: GM and Ford, they get naile...
Lowell Bergman: [the lawyer demands that Wigand's interview be censored into an alternate version] I'm not touching my film. Lawyer: I'm afraid you are. Lowell Bergman: No, I'm not. Lawyer: We're doing this with or without you, Lowell. If you like, I...
Mike Wallace: Will you tell him that when I conduct an interview, I sit anywhere I damn please!
Jeffrey Wigand: Fuck it. Let's go to court.
Mike Wallace: Do me a favor, will you - spare me, for God's sake, get in the real world, what do you think? I'm going to resign in protest? To force it on the air? The answer's "no". I don't plan to spend the end of my days wandering in the wildernes...
Mike Wallace: You cut it! You cut the guts out of what I said! Eric Kluster: It was a time consideration, Mike... Mike Wallace: Time? Bullshit! You corporate lackey! Who told you your incompetent little fingers had the requisite skills to edit me?
Jeffrey Wigand: I have to put my family's welfare on the line here, my friend! And what are you puttin' up? You're puttin' up words! Lowell Bergman: Words? While you've been dickin' around at some fucking company golf tournaments, I been out in the w...
Lowell Bergman: Now are you going to go and do this thing or not?
Lowell Bergman: 'Tortious interference?' That sounds like a disease caught by a radio.
Jeffrey Wigand: You manipulated me into where I am now - staring at the Brown and Williamson Building. It's all dark except the tenth floor. That's the legal department, where they fuck with my life!
Sharon Tiller: You won. Lowell Bergman: Yeah? What did I win?
Richard Scruggs: I know what you're facing, Jeff. And, I think I know how you're feeling. In the Navy I flew A-6's off carriers. In combat, events have a duration of seconds, sometimes minutes. But what you're going through goes on day in and day out...
Tobacco Lawyer: Object! Ron Motley: Is there an echo in here? Your objection's been recorded. She typed it into her little machine over there. It's on the record. So now I'll proceed with my deposition of my witness. Does it act as a drug?
[last lines] Lowell Bergman: What do I tell the my source for the next tough story, huh? 'Hang in with us, you'll be ok maybe'? No. What got broken here doesn't go back together.
Lowell Bergman: I am trying to protect you, man. Jeffrey Wigand: Well I hope you improve your batting average.
Jeffrey Wigand: How did a radical journalist from Ramparts Magazine end up at CBS? Lowell Bergman: I still do the tough stories. 60 Minutes reaches a lot of people.
Tobacco Lawyer: Mr Motley, we have rights here. Ron Motley: Oh you have rights, and lefts, ups, downs and middles. So what?
Lowell Bergman: I'm Lowell Bergmann, I'm from 60 Minutes. You know, you take the 60 Minutes out of that sentence, nobody returns your phone call.
