Other Titles • Absence of Malice • Die Sensationsreporterin (1982)
Quotes from Absence of Malice (1981)
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James A. Wells, Assistant U.S. Attorney General: Tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna sit right here and talk about it. Now if you get tired of talking here, Mr. Marshal Elving Patrick there will hand you one of them subpoenas he's got stuck down in his pocket and we'll go downstairs and talk in front of the grand jury... Elliot? Jim?... Fine. All right, Elving, hand whichever one of these fellas you like a subpoena and we'll go on downstairs and talk in front of the grand jury. District Attorney James A. Quinn: Gallagher's a government witness. James A. Wells, Assistant U.S. Attorney General: Wonderful thing, a subpoena.
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James A. Wells, Assistant U.S. Attorney General: You had a leak? You call what's goin' on around here a leak? Boy, the last time there was a leak like this, Noah built hisself a boat.
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James A. Wells, Assistant U.S. Attorney General: Now we'll talk all day if you want to. But, come sundown, there's gonna be two things true that ain't true now. One is that the United States Department of Justice is goin' to know what in the good Christ - e'scuse me, Angie - is goin' on around here. And the other's I'm gonna have somebody's ass in muh briefcase.
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Asst. U.S. Atty. Gen. James A. Wells: What'd you figure you'd do after government service, Elliot? Elliot Rosen: I'm not quitting. Asst. U.S. Atty. Gen. James A. Wells: You ain't no Presidential appointee, Elliot. One that hired you is me. You got thirty days.
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James A. Wells, Assistant U.S. Attorney General: We can't have people go around leaking stuff for their own reasons. It ain't legal. And worse than that, by God it ain't right.
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