- Archie Bunker: [to Michael] Wait a minute, wait a minute. What the hell are you doin'?
- Gloria Bunker-Stivic: Oh, Michael's got a new hobby, macramé. He's making me a new belt.
- Edith Bunker: Ain't it pretty?
- Archie Bunker: Maca-roni? What?
- Gloria Bunker-Stivic: Macramé.
- Michael 'Meathead' Stivic: [Archie glares at Michael] Don't say it.
- Archie Bunker: There ain't nothin' to say, Florence.
- Michael 'Meathead' Stivic: [Looking annoyed] You said it.
- [Continues weaving]
- Michael 'Meathead' Stivic: .
- Archie Bunker: Will you stop doin' that? Some friend o' mine might come walkin' through the door and find out I got a fruitcake for a son-in-law.
- Gloria Bunker-Stivic: Daddy, there's nothing effeminate about it. Lots of men are doing hobbies like that.
- Michael 'Meathead' Stivic: Yeah, Rosey Grier does needlepoint. Would you call him a fruitcake?
- Archie Bunker: There's no such thing as a colored fag.
- Michael 'Meathead' Stivic: What?
- Archie Bunker: You don't believe me? Walk up to any colored guy and ask him, "Are you a fag?". Your tonsils will be wearin' your moustache.
- [Michael starts toward the door to answer the doorbell]
- Archie Bunker: Leave the door alone. I hate when people come into the house and the first thing they see is you.
- Michael 'Meathead' Stivic: Racial balance is important in everything. Take education: why do you think it's so tough for a black student to become a doctor?
- Archie Bunker: Because nobody wants to see a black guy coming at them with a knife!
- George Jefferson: When you're running for office, you have to do a whole lotta things you don't believe in.
- Louise Jefferson: George, that's not exactly honest.
- George Jefferson: What's honesty got to do with politics?
- Archie Bunker: [after being handed George Jefferson's petition to run for office] Let me look this thing over and see what we got here.
- George Jefferson: It ain't an IOU; just go ahead and sign it.
- Archie Bunker: Hold it, hold it, Jefferson. I don't go around signin' political documentaries just like that, y'know. I mean, even Abe Lincoln, as smart as he was, he read the Declaration of Independence before he put his John Hancock on it.
- Edith Bunker: Archie, are you sure Abraham Lincoln signed the Declaration of Independence?
- Archie Bunker: Sure, fourscore and seven years ago.