You, the People (1940)

C. Henry Gordon: Boss Bailey

Quotes 

• Boss Bailey : Clean Government League voters who stay home are just as important as machine voters who go to the polls.

• Mayor James Wheelock : [listening to a whistleblower on a radio broadcast]  I'll go on the radio and denounce that fellow as a phoney.

  Boss Bailey : The voters won't listen to that stuff. This is what the suckers are interested in.

  Boss Bailey : [turns the radio back on, switching stations]  Swing bands... Comedians... Prize fights... And on election day, they'll do everything but go to the polls and vote. Oh, they'll get in their morning game of golf, have time for beauty treatment, mark the bargain sales, worry about their business, throw their weekly bridge parties, and take time off for ballgames. But they will *not* go to the polls and vote. They just don't care that much.