You and I will be running this town. They'll be naming streets after us.

— Walter Burns (Walter Matthau)

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5 seconds sound clip from the The Front Page (1974) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:12:55 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- What're you waiting for?

- I'm waiting for my girl, that's what I'm waitin' for. She's gonna pick me up.

- Your girl? What are you, some puking college boy?

- This is the hottest story since the Chicago fire!

- We'll make monkeys out of all the other papers. We'll kick City Hall over like an applecart.

- Expose the bastards, huh?

- Expose them? We'll crucify 'em!

- You and I will be running this town. They'll be naming streets after us.

- Johnson Street. Burns Boulevard.

- How come you're a boulevard, I'm only a street?

- Duffy? Where the hell is Duffy?

- Somebody answer me!

- Yes?

[...]

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