Walt Whitman, that great American poet, spoke for all of us when he said, I am the man. I suffered. I was there.
11 seconds sound clip from the Taxi Driver (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:11:26 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Hey listen, I ain't got a permit for this thing. I don't know what I'm gonna do.
- Don't worry about it, man. I'll take care of it.
- No, man, just get out of here. No, man. I'll take care of it. Go ahead.
- The fifth motherfucker this year!
- Today I say to you: We are the people. We suffered. We were there.
- We, the people, suffered in Vietnam.
- We, the people, suffered. We still suffer from unemployment, inflation, crime and corruption.
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