James Stewart

"What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it."

"I beg of you not to do this thing."

"If Potter gets hold of this Building and Loan, there'll never be another decent house built in this town."

"Because we're cutting in on his business, that's why."

"And because he wants to keep you living in his slums and paying the kind of rent he decides."

"Joe, you had one of those Potter houses, didn't you?"

"Have you forgotten what he charged you for that broken-down shack?"

"You know, you remember last year when things weren't going so well, and you couldn't make your payments?"

"Do you think Potter would have let you keep it?"

"Now, we can get through this thing all right."

"We've got to have faith in each other."