- Brenda Johnson: How do you do, Mr. Swenson?
- Axel Swenson: How do you do?
- Brenda Johnson: But how sweet of you to come, Mr. Swenson! Would you enjoy a little rumba?
- Axel Swenson: Oh, it's too early to drink. I would rather dance.
- [She laughs]
- Buzz Blackwell: [Breaking the news of her father's death to Pat] Honey, you've been around men like us since you were a baby. You're grown up now, and that's the way I'm going to talk to you. Every job like this has to be paid for , not only in money, but in men. It seems like a high price but not when you remember that a man who loses his life in work like ours is just as much of a hero as a soldier on the battlefield - except that soldiers have to die destroying things, and we die building them.
- Axel Swenson: Remember that old Swedish proverb: When the strong pick on the weak, the weak get weaker.
- Buzz Blackwell: Oh, get out of here with your proverbs.
- Patricia Johnson: Is it true money talks?
- Bank Guard: You can't prove it by me. I've never even heard it whisper.