Bob Hope credited as playing...
Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: Goodbye... but remember this: the voters always get what they deserve. I wasn't the only chump in this city. It took a lot of you to elect me.
- Allie Walker: You've had a drink.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: It's a free country.
- Allie Walker: There is such a thing as prohibition.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: All right, so it isn't a free country. Let's drink to that, and to the republic for which it stands.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: [after hearing about the stock market crash in 1929] Macarthur, I've only got one rule about money. If you have to worry about it, don't have any.
- Arthur Julian: Well, Jimmy, you don't have to worry about it anymore.
- Flower Woman: Buy a flower for luck.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: Can't have too much luck. I'll take two of 'em.
- [He puts one in the woman's hair]
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: Hazy, takes only a rose in your hair to make you the queen of Tralee.
- Flower Woman: Save it! I vote the straight socialist ticket.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: Some days it's hardly worthwhile being Irish.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: There's three things a man has to do by himself - be born, die, and testify. One down and two to go.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: I'll match my private life with any man's.
- Charley Hand: Any man's - like Henry the Eighth?
- Charley Hand: You're a married man. Worse than that, you're a married mayor.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: Allie and I are only united in the holy bond of politics, Charley. You'll find there's nothing holier than that.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: I'm giving up politics and I'm going back into show business.
- Allie Walker: You don't know the difference.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: Does anybody?
- Allie Walker: Chris Nolan phoned me.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: From my phone, no doubt.
- Allie Walker: Sometimes you have to play along to get ahead.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: Why get ahead?
- Allie Walker: You haven't changed, have you?
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: No, I'm still the fun-loving rover boy.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: [Before his first public appearance with Betty] You're trembling.
- Betty Compton: Why, it's cold out here.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: This is nothing. Wait'll you get inside.
- Allie Walker: A lot of people think our marriage broke up because there weren't any children. But they were wrong. There was always one around the house.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: And now you wanna turn him into a man.
- Allie Walker: Why not? He'll never make a husband.
- Allie Walker: Aren't you taking a lot for granted? You didn't get enough votes to carry the bedroom - not for a while.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: I thought once I was mayor, I'd be off probation. You holding out for the presidency?
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: Charley, how'd you like to work for the new administration?
- Charley Hand: Come on, you didn't even get my vote.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: I need a second opinion.
- Charley Hand: What do you want an enemy in your own office for?
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: I just got a look at my friends. Come around and see me. Everyone else will.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: [Entering the mayor's office after his election] I've never seen a room this size without a floor show.
- Charley Hand: It's got one now.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: And remember, you can't really run a city on brotherly love - not even Philadelphia.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: Did you get ahold of Judge Harrison?
- Spectator: ....He took 200 grand from his bank account and headed for Mexico. Your old professor.
- Reporter: I've made it clear to Mayor Walker that I have no strings and no political allegiance. If anyone gets out of line, no matter what his connections. I'm throwing the book at him. Good day.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: Bye
- Spectator: Who recommended that guy, the Republican National Committee?
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: Get Wilson to open up all my records for the court. They'll answer for every nickel and dime.
- Spectator: Wilson? He's on the Mauritania headed for Europe.
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: Join the Party and see the world.
- Allie Walker: [to Jimmy, before he leaves their dinner table to take the stage] Jim, suppose I ask you not to go up there?
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: What?
- Allie Walker: Just leave New York with me now, and open up a grocery store somewhere. What would you... what would you say?
- Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker: Leave New York? Where else is there?