- Jack Towne: Kiss me goodbye and you're kissing goodbye to 35.000 readers.
- Margaret Pynchon: I wouldn't dream of kissing you goodbye.
- [sweetly]
- Margaret Pynchon: Goodbye...
- Jack Towne: I'll pack up this afternoon.
- [leaves in a huff]
- Margaret Pynchon: [calling after him] Don't take the soap from the men's room.
- Lou Grant: Well, I haven't gotten the memo yet, but any way that we can be protected from the nuts who call the city room would be great.
- Mrs. Pynchon: That's not what the memo says. I asked you to be courteous to the nuts who call the city room.
- Jack Towne: Lou, a lot of good men and women have sacrificed their careers to keep the first amendment strong. Lets not you and me weaken it.
- Lou Grant: Look, I know you think the Nuclear Industry's the biggest bad guy since Sidney Greenstreet. Under normal circumstances, I'd be happy to indulge you but...
- Art Donovan: [interrupting] Don't indulge me, my feelings have nothing to do with this, I'm talking about something that could be a mayor news event.
- Billie Newman: It's been three years, right?
- Animal: Almost four.
- Billie Newman: He's aged about twenty. We've seen the man grow old.
- Animal: It's the pressure.
- Billie Newman: I know that, but it's still sad.
- Lou Grant: You can spare the sympathy, Billie. You wanna talk, do it to my face, not behind my back.
- Animal: Huh?
- Billie Newman: What do you mean, Lou? We were talking about the President.
- Jack Towne: I don't think you understand how something like that makes me look.
- Charlie Hume: Sure I do, Jack. It makes you look like a horse's hiney.
- Billie Newman: Lou, I think piling Sam's stuff outside the door is cruel.
- Lou Grant: That's my style.
- Billie Newman: No it's not...