- Iris Martin: I always treat men with respect so they do the same to me.
- Slim Haskins: Let me know when that works!
- Slim Haskins: What got you started on stream pollution?
- Blake Washburn: It's a problem all over the country. The companies dump their wastes and ashes into fresh water... something that should be controlled.
- Slim Haskins: How long do you have to work around here before you stop calling me Mr. Haskins?
- Iris Martin: I always treat men with respect. Then they treat me with respect, Mr. Haskins.
- Taxi Driver: Blake, I wouldn't be worried about not being reelected if I were you.
- Blake Washburn: I wasn't.
- Taxi Driver: Politics is a funny thing. Sometimes the voters like you, and sometimes they don't.