Dick Kenyon: That's fantastic! My uncle never hurt anybody in his life. He didn't have an enemy in the world.
Wilkie: Well, it certainly wasn't a friend who came here and killed him.


--James Burke (as ) in Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

Tommy Bates: Excuse me, sir. Could you tell me where the schoolhouse is?
Pop Saunders: Surest thing. Up the street about two blocks... where it says Dead Eye Saloon.
Tommy Bates: Well?
Pop Saunders: That's it.
Tommy Bates: What? The Dead Eye Saloon is a schoolhouse?
Pop Saunders: Yep. The owner got killed so we moved the kids in there.


--James Burke (as ) in The Cisco Kid and the Lady

Bangles Carson: Looking for something?
Detective Reardon: Yeah. A kid.
Bangles Carson: Another kid get lost?
Detective Reardon: No, it's the same kid. One of those orphan societies is on our necks. You know, afraid she might have fallen into the hands of the wrong people. Sorrowful, you mind if I take a run up to that new apartment of yours?
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: What for?
Detective Reardon: You know, just for the record.


--James Burke (as Detective Reardon) in Little Miss Marker

Sheriff Ed Johnson: Captain Vesser, you got to be taught a lesson. You got to learn that to fight in a war at peace time is the business of peace officers, not private citizens. We have law in this country, and if a man breaks the law against you, you're just as guilty as him if you break the law trying to get back at him.


--James Burke (as ) in Denver and Rio Grande

Whitey: There's sure lot of building going on around here.
Pokey: A church, new houses, a school... I tell ya what, it's getting so civilized they'll soon tell you where to spit.


--James Burke (as ) in California