Charles Foster Kane As Charles Foster Kane who owns eighty-two thousand, six hundred and thirty-four shares of public transit - you see, I do have a general idea of my holdings - I sympathize with you. Charles Foster Kane is a scoundrel. His paper should be run out of town. A committee should be formed to boycott him. You may, if you can form such a committee, put me down for a contribution of one thousand dollars. Charles Foster Kane I don't think there's one word that can describe a mans life. Charles Foster Kane A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.