- Huey Long: I have the pleasure to undertake to describe to you--
- [A photographer's flashbulb explodes with a loud bang and a flash. A long pause and laughter from all.]
- Huey Long: Now you see there? That bomb didn't explode until tonight.
- Mrs. Hodding Carter: And when he spoke, it was a dynamic experience for all of us, whether you were for him or against him. And the people near the front would say, "Give it to them, Huey, give it to them!" and way in the back someone would say, "Go to hell!"
- Narrator: In 1932, two years after he was elected to the Senate, his hand-picked slate swept the state wide election. The new governor-elect was Oscar "Okay" Allen, a boyhood friend. And so agreeable, according to Long's younger brother Earl, that when a leaf blew onto his desk one morning, Allen signed it.