We all know that the Arabs control $16 billion in this country. They own a chunk of 5th Avenue, twenty downtown pieces of Boston, a part of the port of New Orleans, an industrial park in Salt Lake City.

— Howard Beale (Peter Finch)

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You can hear this line at 01:25:36.458 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- The Howard Beale Show is just going on out here. You guys get it three hours earlier in New York.

- Clarence, take it easy. (2)

- How the hell could I see it? It's just going on now!

- And there's not a single law in the books to stop them.

- When did Mr. Jensen call?

- We all know that the Arabs control $16 billion in this country. They own a chunk of 5th Avenue, twenty downtown pieces of Boston, a part of the port of New Orleans, an industrial park in Salt Lake City.

- They own big hunks of the Atlanta Hilton, the Arizona Land and Cattle Company, part of a bank in California, the Bank of the Commonwealth in Detroit.

- They control Aramco, so that puts them into Exxon, Texaco and Mobil Oil.

- They're all over! New Jersey, Louisville, St. Louis, Missouri, and that's only what we know about. There's a hell of a lot more we don't know about.

- Because all of those Arab petrol dollars are washed through Switzerland and Canada and the biggest banks in this country.

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