“I'm not fit to be a Senator. I'm not fit to live. Expel me! Expel me!...” – Senator Joseph Paine, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ... Movie Quotes Database

[After Jefferson Smith collapses during his filibuster]

I'm not fit to be a Senator. I'm not fit to live. Expel me! Expel me! Not him. Every word that boy said is the truth! Every word about Taylor and me and graft and the rotten political corruption of our state. Every word of it is true. I'm not fit for office! I'm not fit for any place of honor or trust. Expel me!

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Jim Taylor I want you to let the ballyhoo boys loose, plan a celebration, and declare a holiday. Jim Taylor Well what do you want me to do? Stand around like you chumps and let that drooling infant wrap that Willet Creek Dam appropriation around my neck! Not me, ha, ha, ha. Either he falls in line with us and behaves himself or I'll break him so wide open they'll never be able to find the pieces. Jim Taylor Our steam-roller methods are getting too hard for your sensitive soul. Is that it? The Silver Knight is getting too big for us. My methods have been all right for the past twenty years, Joe. Since I picked you out of a fly-specked hole in the wall and blew you up to look like a Senator. And now you can't stand it.