- [first lines]
- Government Agent Chief: Swing, nothing but swing! Gentlemen, it's sweeping over the country. Jitterbug! They're a menace to the public. They must be stamped out.
- Hal Sturges: What we've got to do, Chief, is get to the higher ups!
- Government Agent Chief: Now you're talking, Sturges. We don't want the small fry. We want Public Jitterbug No. 1!
- Cowgirl Singer: [singing] I wanna be a cowboy's sweetheart, The nights I love best, Yodo-lay-eee-hee-lay, Yodo-lay-eee-hee-ooo...
- Government Agent Chief: What's Louie the Lug doing in here with that dame?
- Maître d (Govt Agent): Must be a bodyguard.
- Hal Sturges: What's the idea of running away from me when I asked you to dance?
- Betty: With a moon like that, there's only one thing I'd like to do. And it isn't dancing!
- Betty: So! I might have known.
- Hal Sturges: Well, I...
- Betty: So, you're a federal snooper! A dancin' flatfoot!
- Betty: [singing] I start swinging, In the morning, With the rising sun, That's why the call me Public Jitterbug No. 1...
- Betty: [singing] I showed Hoover, And his G-Men, How the jive is done, That's why they call me Public Jitterbug No. 1...