- Eddie Minelli: You don't know diddly-squat about power. Power's there for the taking. You just have to reach out and grab it, and hold on, and don't let go, or else somebody else'll take it away from you. Power is just like a woman: it goes to the strongest man around.
- Aldo D: You don't understand. Puppetry is a very ancient art. It's a kind of holy thing. It would be a profanation of that art if I were to do this kind of thing. If i were to be a party to this kind of... obscenity, who can tell what could happen? The gods of puppetry might desert me. I can't take that risk.