Respect the Law (1941)

Richard Lane: George Johnson

Quotes 

• George Johnson : [on compliance with rat control citation]  What'll it cost?

  Johnson's Secretary : Twenty-six thousand dollars.

  George Johnson : [stunned]  Twenty-six thousand dollars for ratproofing? It's an outrage!

  Johnson's Secretary : But Mr. Johnson - there's a city ordinance!

  George Johnson : City ordinance. City ordinance! When taxes don't run you out of business, city ordinances do! Some swivel-chaired idiot gets a theory, and it costs me thousands of dollars!

• Peter Brennan : I tell you, they'll put me in jail! As soon as they get the report, they'll know what I did!

  George Johnson : Stop acting like an old woman. You're not in jail yet, and you won't be.

  Peter Brennan : You got me into this - you gotta get me out.

  George Johnson : I'll get you out. Listen - I've got a cabin in the mountains. You'll be perfectly safe there - just lay low, and don't make a move until you hear from me. I'll send you out of the state when this plague scandal is over.

• George Johnson : Put yourself in his place. Facing a jail sentence - it would mean disgrace to his whole family.

  Mrs. George Johnson : But if he has a family, they're already disgraced. All he can do for them now is to give himself up, and save all those other poor people.