“You know, Barbara, the Arabs have decided to jack up the price of oil...” – Diana Christensen, Network ... Movie Quotes Database

[flipping through the newspaper]

You know, Barbara, the Arabs have decided to jack up the price of oil another 20%... uh, the CIA has been caught opening Senator Humphrey's mail... there's a civil war in Angola... another one in Beirut... the, uh, New York City's still facing default... they finally caught up with Patricia Hearst... and the whole front page of the "Daily News" is Howard Beale.

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