When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.
Ma Bailey: [speaking of Mary Hatch] Why, she lights up like a firefly whenever you are around. Besides, Sam Wainright is off in New York, and you're here in Bedford Falls... George Bailey: And all's fair in love and war, right? Ma Bailey: [fixing his...
Mrs. Hatch: Who is down there with you, Mary? Mary: It's George Bailey, mother. Mrs. Hatch: George Bailey? What does he want? Mary: I don't know! [to George] Mary: What do you want? George Bailey: Me? Nothing! I just came in to get warm. Mary: [pause...
Frank Bailey: [sniffs Goatee] Hell! You even startin' to smell like a nigger, Jew boy. Goatee: [to his passengers] Don't worry. We'll be all right. Frank Bailey: Sure you will, nigger lover. Floyd Swilley: He seen your face. That's not good him seein...
Harry Bailey: Say, where's Mother? George Bailey: She's home cooking the fatted calf.
We see very, very high rates of C-sections, Cesarean sections, in India. Lots of reasons for it, high levels of malnutrition have meant that women have very small pelvic areas often, so if they have larger babies, it's very hard to deliver.
George Bailey: Well, you look about the kind of angel I'd get. Sort of a fallen angel, aren't you? What happened to your wings? Clarence: I haven't won my wings, yet. That's why I'm called an Angel Second Class. I have to earn them. And you'll help m...
George Bailey: The Navy's gonna fly him [Harry] George Bailey: and Mother home tomorrow. Cousin Eustace: In a plane?
[George has discovered his brother Harry's tombstone] Clarence: [explaining] Your brother, Harry Bailey, broke through the ice and was drowned at the age of nine. George Bailey: That's a lie! Harry Bailey went to war! He got the Congressional Medal o...
Pa Bailey: Of course it's just a hope, you wouldn't consider coming back to the Building & Loan would you? George Bailey: Well I... [notices Annie eavesdropping] George Bailey: Annie, why don't you draw up a chair and then you'll be more comfortable ...
It's great that people get together and collaborate, talk about the facts and the analysis, all in the interest of having a great financial system.
Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.
George Bailey: How old are you anyway? Mary: 18. George Bailey: 18! Why it was only last year you were 17.
Mary: Have a hectic day? George Bailey: Oh yeah, another big red-letter day for the Baileys!
George Bailey: Now, you listen to me! I don't want any plastics, and I don't want any ground floors, and I don't want to get married - ever - to anyone! You understand that? I want to do what I want to do. And you're... and you're... [runs out of wor...
George Bailey: [to a derelict Mr. Gower] Mr. Gower! This is George Bailey! Don't you know me? Mr. Emil Gower: No... No... Nick: [to his bouncers] Throw 'em out, throw 'em out! George Bailey: Mr. Gower! Hey, what is...? Hey, Nick! Nick! Isn't that Mr....
George Bailey: Well, maybe I left the car up at Martini's. Well, come on, Gabriel. Clarence: Clarence! George Bailey: Clarence. Right... Clarence.
George Bailey: Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me [begins crying] George Bailey: show me the way... show me the way.
Violet Bick: Good afternoon, Mr. Bailey. George Bailey: Hello, Violet. Hey, you look good, that's some dress you got on there. Violet Bick: This old thing? Why, I only wear it when I don't care how I look. Ernie Bishop: How would you like to take... ...
George Bailey: Did you put the envelope in your pocket? Uncle Billy: Maybe, maybe, maybe. George Bailey: Maybe, maybe! I don't want any maybe, look we've got to find that money.
Frank Bailey: Get this straight, you corn-holin' fucker. You tell your queer-ass nigger bosses that they ain't never gonna find those civil rightsers down here! So you might as well pack up and go back up North where you came from and... [Anderson gr...
