- Billie Newman: And what about the photographs? I, I have glanced through several copies of the Spectator, and I noticed he always uses the most unflattering photos he could find.
- Clive Whitcomb: [laughs] Yes, the Rembrandt of Bad Lighting.
- [another short burst of laughter]
- Clive Whitcomb: He could make a beauty queen look like Quasimodo.
- Joe Rossi: [claps his hands] Ok. I think our team is ready.
- [gets up to leave but Mrs. Pynchon is in his way]
- Mrs. Pynchon: Mr. Rossi, the Tribune is being sued for sixty million dollars. We would do well not to approach it like a hockey game.
- Lou Grant: How long have you been on the health beat?
- Jerry Hollister: [coughs out a mouthful of smoke] Six years now, I think it is.
- Lou Grant: Eh... doesn't all that stuff you, eh, you learn about worry you? You, eh, you smoke, you eat junk... you don't exersise.
- Jerry Hollister: Well, I think somebody has to set a bad example, Lou.
- Billie Newman: But regardless of whom they are, should they be victimized by distorsions and, eh, different versions of the truth?
- Clive Whitcomb: Oh, it's, eh, not different versions of truth, Miss Newman.
- Billie Newman: What is it, then?
- Clive Whitcomb: Lies.
- Art Donovan: [after hanging up his phone] Well, somebody liked our story on the Spectator.
- Lou Grant: You, eh, plan to take them all to lunch or just the ones that sound cute?
- Art Donovan: That was Kelly Morrow, the TV star. You know the one that's on that show about the big family in Oklahoma City that owns all the oil wells? Where everybody is trying to stab everybody else in the back? She's the sexy one.
- Lou Grant: Everyone's the sexy one.