Hec Ramsey (TV Series)

The Mystery of Chalk Hill (1973)

Rick Lenz: Chief Oliver Stamp

Quotes 

• Chief Sheriff Oliver B. Stamp : [to Ramsey, who is reading a book]  Well, Mr. Ramsey, what have you learned from Dr. Freud?

  Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : The paranoids are out to get me.

• Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : [In response to Chief Stamp's accusing Ramsey of police brutality]  Them that haven't got the guts to resist arrest haven't got the grit to commit a crime.

  Chief Sheriff Oliver B. Stamp : I see. So now you not only arrest the party, you provide the punishment as well?

  Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : Well, there's extenuating circumstances, like necessary force.

  Chief Sheriff Oliver B. Stamp : And you seem to be evoking it with increasing eventuality. A warning, Mr. Ramsey, on the record: I will no longer tolerate your rampant tendencies toward mayhem!

  Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : Well, you show me some civilized felons, and then I'm gonna show you some civilized law enforcement.

• Constable Arne Tornquist : You seen this latest issue of The Gazette?

  Chief Oliver Stamp : No.

  Constable Arne Tornquist : The editor claims that there are six prisoners in this jail and every one of them has a serious injury incurred during apprehension.

  Chief Oliver Stamp : Mr. Ramsey, is this true?

  Hec Ramsey : That is a base canard. It is a bald-headed, barefooted lie.

  Chief Oliver Stamp : You mean they're not hurt.

  Hec Ramsey : I mean there're seven of 'em.

  Chief Oliver Stamp : Is Number Seven all in one piece?

  Hec Ramsey : Except for his teeth.

• Chief Oliver Stamp : I'm apologizing.

  Hec Ramsey : I'm accepting. Just, we don't see eye-to-eye about law enforcement. Kid misbehaves, you tell him to go stand in the corner.

  Chief Oliver Stamp : What's that got to do with anything?

  Hec Ramsey : Well, what if tha kid pulls a gun and tells you to go to Hell?