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"[to a criminal in custody] I want to talk to you. I want to take you across the street, get you a cup of coffee... without cuffs. Now look, I didn't touch you upstairs, right? You take off on me, I'll put one in your back. Understand? Come on."
"[testifying before the Knapp Commission] Through my appearance here today... I hope that police officers in the future will not experience... the same frustration and anxiety that I was subjected to... for the past five years at the hands of my superiors... because of my attempt to report corruption. I was made to feel that I had burdened them with an unwanted task. The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist... in which an honest police officer can act... without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers. Police corruption cannot exist unless it is at least tolerated... at higher levels In the department. Therefore, the most important result that can come from these hearings... is a conviction by police officers that the department will change. In order to ensure this... an independent, permanent investigative body... dealing with police corruption, like this commission, is essential."
"[given a detective's gold badge] What's this for? For bein' an honest cop? Hmm? Or for being stupid enough to get shot in the face? You tell them that they can shove it."
"The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry - it just gets dirtier."
"You stupid fuck! You didn't know me? You fired without a warning, without a fucking brain in your head? Oh, shit. If I buy one, motherfucker, I ain't buying it from you."
"Al Pacino - Frank Serpico"
"John Randolph - Chief Sidney Green"
"Jack Kehoe - Tom Keough"
"Biff McGuire - Captain Inspector McClain"
"Barbara Eda-Young - Laurie"
"Cornelia Sharpe - Leslie Lane"
"Tony Roberts - Bob Blair"
"John Medici - Pasquale Serpico"
"Allan Rich - District Attorney Herman Tauber"
"Norman Ornellas - Don Rubello"
"Edward Grover - Inspector Lombardo"
"Joseph Bova - Potts"
"John Stewart - Waterman"
"Woodie King Jr. - Larry"
"James Tolkan - Lieutenant Steiger"
"Ed Crowley - Barto"
"Bernard Barrow - Inspector Roy Palmer"
"Nathan George - Lieutenant Nate Smith"
"Alan North - Brown"
"Lewis J. Stadlen - Jerry Berman"
"M. Emmet Walsh - Gallagher"
"George Ede - Daley"
"Ted Beniades - Sarno"
"F. Murray Abraham - detective partner"
"John Brandon - police lieutenant"
"Sam Coppola - cop"
"René EnrÃquez - Cervantes Teacher"
"Conard Fowkes - cop"
"Judd Hirsch - cop"
"Tony Lo Bianco - cop"
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.