boys that can get the boys.
- How many can you get?
- Fifty.
- How much?
- Five dollars a head.
What do you think?
They look like good boys?
They better be.
Get 100.
Go on, all of you. Blow.
You too, Duffy, go on.
Handbill distributors.
If they all look like them,
I'd take one.
That's the object. Not like
when they beat up my boy.
- How is Tom?
- He's fine.
- He starts college in the fall.
- And Lucy?
Fine.
I need a boy.
Where's a boy?
Take that downstairs
right away, on the double.
Double-space all of this.
He can't read it.
- Hi, how are you?
- Sadie is my secretary now.
Fix your tie, Willie.
Hey, Sugar.
Keep everybody out.
I want to talk to Jack and Sadie.
Now you'll work for me.
Doing what?
I don't know.
Something will turn up.
We need a college man around.
For research.
How much they pay you
on that newspaper?
Three hundred dollars a month.
I could buy you cheap, couldn't I?
For a bag of salt.
I don't play that way.
I like you. I always have.
I tell you what I'll do.
I'll give you $400 a month
and traveling expenses.
You throw money around
like it was money.
Money.
I don't need money.
People give me things.
Why?
Because they believe in me.
I was going home again. 
But this time, it was different. 
I had a feeling that
maybe the waiting was over. 
For me and for Anne. 
It's a far cry from where
I come from to this house.
It's a far cry from where
I come from to this house.
Standing under the portrait of
one of the greatest governors...
...and talking to you...
...it's an honor I never
thought I'd have.
Are there any questions?
Mr. McAvoy?
I have no questions.
Judge?
- A few, but it will hold.
- I have a question.
Shoot.
A lot of people in this state say
that you've been making deals.
Some of them with the groups
you claim you're against.
Is that true?
- You know how rumors start...
- Yes, that's true.
I have nothing to hide.
I'll deal with the devil
if it'll help with my program.
But believe me...
...there are no strings attached.
You're sure about that?
Jack has been telling me
how you feel about things.
You'd like the sick people
given a break.
You'd like to see
a new hospital built...
...a hospital that's the best
that money can buy.
You want those things because
you're a man who wants to do good.
I'd like to ask a question.
Shoot.
- Do you know what good comes out of?
- You tell me.
Out of bad, that's what.
Because you can't make it
out of anything else.
Did you know that?
No, I didn't.
There's another question
I'd like to ask you.
You say there's only bad
to start with...
...and the good must come from the bad.
Who's to determine
what's good and what's bad?
You?
Why not?
How?
Why, that's easy.
Make it up as you go along.
Folks.
There's a time to talk
and there's a time to act.
I think the time to act is now.
With your support, I will win
and do all of the things I promised.
I need your help.
I need it badly.
But I won't beg for it.
In the name of this state
which we love...
...and the governor in whose house
we meet, I demand it.
- What do you say, sir?
- You've got to say yes.
- I'm an old bird.
- But a game one.
I'll give you complete power
as attorney general.
You can do anything you see fit.
I'll clear your way.
- Is that a deal?
- It's a deal.
We have to get back to town.
A lot to do.
Good night.
I'm glad to have met you.
We want Willie!
We want Willie!
This is not a time for speechmaking.
I should ask God for strength
to carry out your will.
This much I swear to you.
These things you shall have:
I'm going to build a hospital.
The biggest that money can buy.
And it will belong to you.
That anyone who is sick or in pain
can go through those doors...
...and know that everything
will be done for them...
...to heal sickness,
to ease pain.
Free.
Not as a charity...
...but as a right.
And it is your right.
Do you hear me?