Richard Scruggs: I'd be lying to you if I did not tell you how important it was in a court of public opinion. Lowell Bergman: And I'd be lying if I did not tell, I'm about out of moves, Dick.
Debbie: The subheading reads, 'Brown and Williamson has a 500 page dossier attacking chief critic.' It quotes Richard Scruggs calling it, 'the worse kind of an organized smear campaign against a Whistleblower'. 'A closer look at the file and independ...
Mike Wallace: And that's what cigarettes are for? Jeffrey Wigand: A delivery device for nicotine. Mike Wallace: A delivery device for nicotine. Put it in your mouth, lit it up and you're gonna get your fix? Jeffrey Wigand: You're gonna get your fix.
Jeffrey Wigand: I can't seem to find the criteria to decide. It's too big a decision to make without being resolved in my own mind. Lowell Bergman: Maybe things have changed. Jeffrey Wigand: What's changed? Lowell Bergman: You mean since this morning...
Lowell Bergman: What does this guy have to say that threatens these people? Mike Wallace: Well, it isn't that cigarrettes are bad for you. Lowell Bergman: Hardly new news. Mike Wallace: No shit.
Lowell Bergman: We've got a guy who wants to talk, but he's constrained. What if he were compelled? Mike Wallace: Oh, torture. Great ratings.
Thomas Sandefur: I joined Brown & Williamson, came up through sales. I was the best salesman they ever had, and do you know why? I never made a promise I couldn't keep.
Lowell Bergman: Are you a businessman? Or are you a news man?
Don Hewitt: Are you suggesting that she and Eric are influenced by money? Lowell Bergman: No, no of course they're not influenced by money. They work for free. And you are a volunteer executive producer.
Sharon Tiller: Get some perspective, Lowell. Lowell Bergman: I got perspective. Sharon Tiller: No, you do not. Lowell Bergman: From my perspective, what's been going on and what I've been doing is ridiculous. It's half-measures. Sharon Tiller: You're...
Mike Wallace: Did I get you up? Lowell Bergman: No, I usually sit around my hotel room dressed like this at 5:30 in the morning, sleepy look on my face.
Lowell Bergman: I did not burn you. I did not give you up to anyone! Jeffrey Wigand: This is my house... In front of my wife, my kids? What business do we have? Lowell Bergman: To straighten something out with you. Right here. Right now. Jeffrey Wiga...
Jeffrey Wigand: What's this have to do with the price of tea in China?
Don Hewitt: I heard Wigand's deposition got sealed. Lowell Bergman: Yeah, they argued he was gonna reveal the secret formula of Kools to the world.
Jeffrey Wigand: [to a suspicious-looking fellow golfer] Stay away from me. Stay *away* from me!
Jeffrey Wigand: I find chemistry to be magical. I find it an adventure, an exploration into the physical building blocks of our universe.
Mike Wallace: Sheikh Fadlallah. Thank you so much for seeing us. Are you a terrorist? Sheikh Fadlallah: Mr. Wallace, I am a servant of God. Mike Wallace: A servant of God? Really? Americans believe that you, as an Islamic fundamentalist, that you are...
Mike Wallace: [to Hezbollah Head Gunman] What the hell do you think I am? A 78 year-old assassin? You think I'm gonna karate him to death with this notepad?
