Electra Glide in Blue (1973)

Mitchell Ryan: Harve Poole

Quotes 

• Harve Poole : Incompetence is the worst form of corruption.

• Harve Poole : I'm moved to work you over. I'm moved to bust your kidneys! And I won't leave a trace. Not a mark on you! You hear what I'm saying to you? I'll work you over till you wished you died last year, you hear me?

• Harve Poole : Nine cops gunned down in two years? You call that casual statistics? A goddamned open season. The conspiracy's reaching out national proportions. This country is undergoing a precisely formulated conspiracy of police genocide. A carefully organized plan of civilian brutality, and it's just around the corner. And the sooner we get to dealing with it, the sooner I get to save your precious ass from some nigger waiting in the bushes ready to nail ya.

• Harve Poole : We found three sets of your prints in that shack, which makes me think that you're not too bright. But I suppose you're gonna tell me you dropped in for a cup of tea, is that right?

  Bob Zemko : No, sir.

  Harve Poole : You bet it isn't! Because we found a half a bushel of dope in that shack. We - we also know you were busted for dope in Vietnam and you got a track record here - as long as the Gettysburg Address.

• Harve Poole : [to John Wintergreen]  I like to find myself out here this time of night. There's a fine young lady I'd like to introduce you to. Fine young lady. She's brought a lot of happiness in my life.

• Harve Poole : When the night talks to you, you gotta listen, Wintergreen. Look at that moon. Listen to that desert. That desert's gonna help me solve a murder.

• Harve Poole : This here's a winner's circle, Wintergreen. Only losers I deal in are in the jail or in the morgue.

• Harve Poole : Let me tell you something, a little something about police work and women. If you mix the two, you can't do justice to either one.

• Harve Poole : Where would a freak like you get thirty-seven hundred dollars, Zemko? Busting gumball machines? Cashing the pennies in?