Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

William Forrest: Sen. Harvey Walker

Quotes 

• J.J. Hunsecker : Look, Manny, you rode in here on the Senator's shirt tails, so shut your mouth!

  Sen. Harvey Walker : Now, come, J.J., that's a little too harsh. Anyone seems fair game for you tonight.

  J.J. Hunsecker : This man is not for you, Harvey, and you shouldn't be seen with him in public. Because that's another part of a press agent's life - he digs up scandal among prominent men and shovels it thin among columnists who give him space.

  Sen. Harvey Walker : There is some allusion here that escapes me...

  J.J. Hunsecker : We're friends, Harvey - we go as far back as when you were a fresh kid Congressman, don't we?

  Sen. Harvey Walker : Why does everything you say sound like a threat?

  J.J. Hunsecker : Maybe it's a mannerism - because I don't threaten friends, Harvey. But why furnish your enemies with ammunition? You're a family man. Someday, with God willing, you may wanna be President. Now here you are, Harvey, out in the open where any hep person knows that this one...

  [points at Manny Davis] 

  J.J. Hunsecker : [points at Linda James]  ... is toting THAT one...

  J.J. Hunsecker : [points at Senator]  around for you.

• Sidney Falco : Do you believe in capital punishment, Senator?

  Sen. Harvey Walker : [amused]  Why?

  Sidney Falco : [pointing to the phone]  A man has just been sentenced to death.