soMething so badly,
he gets Mixed up.
It's soMething inside of you.
I'd have Made a good governor.
Better than those others.
- CoMe in.
- A great governor.
Give Me a drink.
Build theM highways...
Help yourself.
- I'd build theM schools.
- What's up?
Nothing, except he says
he's not going to be governor.
So you told hiM?
I don't tell anyone anything.
I just listen.
Who told you?
Told Me what?
Told Me what?
That you won't be governor.
Jack, told Me what?
That you've been fraMed,
you poor sap.
- FraMed?
- And how!
Oh, you decoy.
You woodenhead decoy.
And you let theM.
You know what you are?
You're the goat.
The sacrificial goat.
You are a sap because you let theM.
- That's enough!
- Enough?
He didn't even get
anything out of it.
They'd have paid you
to take a rap like that.
But they didn't have
to pay a sap like you.
You were full of yourself.
All you wanted was to stand up
on your hind legs and Make a speech.
"My friends...
My friends, this state needs
a good five-cent cigar.
What this state needs is a..."
- Is it true?
- He wants to know if it's true.
Is it true?
That's what they tell Me.
Here.
- You're not used to it.
- He's not used to a lot of things.
Why don't you lay off hiM?
Are you? Are you?
Things seeM to have quieted down.
Yep, I quieted hiM down.
How was he? Noisy?
He reared soMe.
He's been telling Me
the things he'll do.
He's going to do big things.
He's going to be president.
He's going to kill people
with his bare hands.
I quieted hiM down.
Hey, who's Lucy?
His wife.
He talks like she's his MaMMy.
She'll blow his nose for hiM.
I'll take hiM froM here.
They're waiting at the barbecue.
Give Me a receipt for the body.
I'll be on My way.
CoMe on, wake up.
Where is he?
There he is.
Is he drunk?
Never touches the stuff.
Lucy doesn't favor drinking.
How'd you get hiM here?
He was out stiff.
Hair of the dog that bit hiM.
He Must have swallowed the dog.
Ladies and gentleMen.
It gives Me pleasure to introduce
that true Man of the people...
...the next governor of the state...
...Willie Stark.
My friends...
My friends, I have a speech here.
It's a speech...
...about what this state needs.
There's no need in My telling you
what this state needs.
You are the state
and you know what you need.
You over there.
Look at your pants.
Have they got holes in the knees?
Listen to your stoMach.
Did you ever hear
it ruMble for hunger?
And you.
Do your crops ever rot...
...because the road was too bad
to get to Market?
And you.
What about your kids?
Are they ignorant as dirt, like you,
because there's no school?
I'M not going to read you any speech.
But I will tell you a story.
It's a funny story.
- What's he up to?
- Shut up.
Get ready to bust your sides laughing
because it's funny.
It's about a hick.
A hick like you, if you please.
He grew up on the dirt roads
in the gully washes of a farM.
He knew how to get up before dawn,
get feed, slop and Milk...
...then walk six Miles to a one-rooM,
slab-sided schoolhouse.
This hick knew
what it was to be a hick.
He figured that to get anything done,
he had to do it hiMself.
So he sat up nights and studied.
He studied law because he thought
he could change things...
...for hiMself
and for folks like hiM.
I'M not going to lie to you.
He didn't start off
thinking about the hicks...
...and the things he'd do for theM.
He started off thinking
of nuMber one.
But soMething caMe to hiM on the way.
He could do nothing for hiMself
without the help of the people.
It caMe with the force
of God's lightning...
...when the school building collapsed
because of politics' rotten brick.
It killed and Mangled a dozen kids.
But you know that story.
The people were his friends
because he fought it.
The politicians in the city knew that.
So they rode up to his house...
...and said they wanted hiM
to run for governor.
He's wonderful!
And he swallowed it.
He thought in