- And now, gentlemen, we've got to start looking for a new Treasurer.
- But you appointed one last week!
- That's the one I'm looking for.
6 seconds sound clip from the Duck Soup (1933) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:19:17.155 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Members of the cabinet, we'll take up old business.
- I wish to discuss the tariff.
- Sit down, that's new business. No old business? Very well. Then we'll take up new business.
- Too late! That's old business already. Sit down.
- Gentlemen, as your Secretary of War, I...
- The Secretary of War is out of order! Which reminds me, so is the plumbing.
- Make a note of that. Never mind, I'll do it myself.
- The Department of Labor wishes to report that the workers of Freedonia are demanding shorter hours.
- Very well, we'll give them shorter hours. We'll start by cutting their lunch hour to 20 minutes.
- And now, gentlemen, we've got to start looking for a new Treasurer.
- But you appointed one last week!
- That's the one I'm looking for.
- Gentlemen, gentlemen, enough of this. How about taking up the tax?
- How about taking up the carpet?
- I still insist we must take up the tax!
- He's right, you've got to take up the tacks before you can take up the carpet.
- I give all my time and energy to my duties and what do I get?
- You get awfully tiresome after a while.
- I don't mind if I do. You must come over and try mine sometime.
- That's the last straw! I resign! I wash my hands off the whole business.
- That's a good idea. You can wash your neck, too.
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