Politics (1931)

Marie Dressler: Hattie Burns

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• Hattie Burns : You must be pretty proud of yourself, breaking up our meeting like that.

  Peter Higgins : After that, you couldn't run for a streetcar!

• Ivy Higgins : [Last lines at the commencement of Myrtle and Benny's marriage ceremony]  And, you know, it isn't every young couple that can have the wedding ceremony performed by Her Honor, the Mayor.

  [indicating Hattie] 

  Hattie Burns : No, and it isn't every young couple that can have as Matron of Honor, the Commissioner of Garbage.

  [indicating Ivy] 

• Hattie Burns : Well, what's your proposition?

  Jim Curango : Well, just this... if I let you in as mayor, all I want to do is handle the business end of the office, and you can handle the social welfare and public improvements.

  Hattie Burns : Oh, well, the first public improvement I'm gonna make is to run you outta town.

• Hattie Burns : [Referring to Peter]  Oh, Ivy, kiss him. He can't suffer more than he has already.

• Ivy Higgins : If anything happens to you, I'll run myself, and I bet I can fill the chair.

  Hattie Burns : [looks at Ivy's backside and feels her own hips]  No, no, not as well as I could.

• Ivy Higgins : Oh, Hattie, stop that. Do you wanna sit in the mayor's seat with red eyes?

  Hattie Burns : Can't I blubber if I'm happy?

• Ivy Higgins : It's those foreigners that come over here and ruin our city.

  Hattie Burns : Is it?

  Ivy Higgins : Mm hmmm.

  Hattie Burns : Well, if it hadn't been for a foreigner named Columbus you'd never of met Peter.

  Ivy Higgins : Well, I'd be better off if Columbus had stayed at home.