This tube is the Gospel. The ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers!

Howard Beale (Peter Finch)

9 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:04:22.426 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- So a rich little man with white hair died. What has that got to do with the price of rice, right? And why is that woe to us?

- Because you people and 62 million other Americans are listening to me right now.

- Because less than 3 percent of you people read books.

- Because less than 15 percent of you read newspapers.

- Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube. Right now, there is a whole and entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube.

- This tube is the Gospel. The ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers!

- This tube is the most awesome goddamn force in the whole godless world! And woe is us if it ever falls into the hands of the wrong people.

- And that's why woe is us that Edward George Ruddy died.

- Because this company is now in the hands of CCA, the Communication Corporation of America.

- There's a new chairman of the board. A man called Frank Hackett sitting in Mr. Ruddy's office on the 20th floor!

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