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April 10, 2026
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"How do you do it, man? How do you manage to keep coming up with new and amazing ways to fuck up? I mean, that Scotch bullshit? Am I really supposed to believe you came crawlin' home because you felt heartstrings moan for the family biz? You were bankrupt, man! The scary thing is, you probably coulda got away with it for awhile."
"One case of scotch, Brian? Man, you're getting cheap in your old age!"
"You go, we go."
"I told you to stay right be-fucking-side me, Brian!"
"Well, I thinks its union bylaw that if you get your picture in the paper, even if it's bullshit, that you gotta buy the whole company a drink."
"The only problem is that in this job is there's just no place to hide. It's not like having a bad day selling log cabins. You have a bad day here and somebody dies... and that's just not fucking good enough."
"You're doin it wrong."
"Look at him. That's my brother, Goddamn it."
"I'm not gonna quit, Stephen. You hear me?"
"Jesus, Stevie, you never know when to quit, do you? Do you ever wonder why you're stuck a fucking lieutenant for life?"
"[Rimgale and Brian crash Alderman Swayzak's press conference] These detectives would like to question you on how come you paid Donald Cosgrove, Jeffrey Holcomb and Alan Seagrave to create a phony manpower study! Ask him who made money off firemen dying!"
"Ricco, Pathologist: [to Brian about picking up the burned body] Jesus Christ! He's not going to sell you insurance, pick him up!"
"Ronald Bartel: The funny thing about firemen is... Night and day they are always firemen."
"Silently behind a door, it waits."
"One breath of oxygen and it explodes in a deadly rage."
"In that instant it can create a hero... or cover a secret."
"Kurt Russell - Lt. Stephen "Bull" McCaffrey/Capt. Dennis McCaffrey"
"William Baldwin - Brian McCaffrey"
"Robert De Niro - Inspector Donald "Shadow" Rimgale"
"Scott Glenn - John "Axe" Adcox"
"Jennifer Jason Leigh - Jennifer Vaitkus"
"Rebecca De Mornay - Helen McCaffrey"
"Donald Sutherland - Ronald Bartel"
"Jason Gedrick - Tim Krizminski"
"J. T. Walsh - Alderman Martin Swayzak"
"Anthony Mockus, Sr. - Chief John Fitzgerald"
"Cedric Young - Grindle"
"Juan Ramirez - Ray Santos"
"Kevin Casey as Nightingale"
"Jack McGee - Schmidt"
"Mark Wheeler - Pengelly"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.