"Rosebud."

"Mr.Thatcher - Your idea of how hard to run newspaper, Charles - I don't know how to run a newspaper, Mr. Thatcher; I just try everything I can think of."

"Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money... if all you want is to make a lot of money."

"Charles - You know Mr.Bernstein.if I hadn't been very rich I might have been a really great man. Mr.Bernstein - Don't you think you are. Charles - I think I did pretty well under the circumstances. Mr.Bernstein - What would you like to have been. Charles - Everything you hate."

"I can remember absolutely everything young man. That's my curse. That's one of the greatest curses that's ever been inflicted on the human race: memory."

"Dear Wheeler, you providethe prose poems, I'll provide the war."

"Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of."

"You're right Mr.Thatcher, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in. 60 years."

"You don't love me. You want me to love you. Sure I'm Charles Foster Kane. Whatever you want just name it and it's yours. But you gotta love me. Don't tell me you're sorry."

"Mr.Carter, If the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough."

"I don't think any word can describe a man's life."

"He never believed in anything except Charlie Kane. He never had a conviction except Charlie Kane in his life."

"Don't believe everything you hear on the radio. Read the Inquirer!"

"I always gagged on that silver spoon."

"You talk about the people as though you owned them, as though they belong to you."

"I'm an American. Always been an American."

"A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own."

"I'm not a gentleman. Your ship's going up and I'm just helping the ground swell."

"Don't worry about me, Gettys! Don't worry about me! I'm Charles Foster Kane! I'm no cheap, crooked politican trying to save himself from the consequences of his crime! Gettys! I gonna send you to Sing Sing.Sing Sing Gettys! Sing Sing"

"Forty-nine thousand acres of nothing but scenery and statues. I'm lonesome."

"A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember."

"I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?"

"A Burmese temple and three Spanish ceilings down the hall."

"We have no secrets from our readers. Mr.bernstein Mr.Thatcher is one of our devoted readers."

"You're writing a bad notice. I guess that'll show you."

"Charles Foster Kane is a scoundrel. His paper should be run out of town."

"I'll let you in on a little secret—it's also my pleasure to see to it that decent, hard-working people in this community aren't robbed blind."

"Everything in American politics is diametric. You either support or condemn."

"He said all kinds of things that didn't mean anything."

"I know too many people. I guess we're both lonely."

"He just did brutal things. Maybe I wasn't his friend, but if I wasn't, he never had one."

"There's only one person who's going to decide what I'm going to do and that's me."

"The news goes on for 24 hours a day."

"I entered this campaign with one purpose only, to point out and make public the dishonesty of Boss Jim W. Gettys."

"Oh, a person could go crazy in this dump with nobody to talk to."

"You can't buy a bag of peanuts in this town without someone writing a song about you."

"He wanted all the voters to love him too. That's why he went into politics."

"How did I find business conditions in Europe? With great difficulty."

"You never should have married a newspaper man... they're worse than sailors!"

"I've got his trunk all packed. I've had it packed for a week now."

"It seems we weren't enough. He wanted all the people to love him."

"I'd like to keep that particular piece of paper myself. I have a hunch it might turn out to be something pretty important."

"Everything was for you. It was never for me."

"I am the publisher of The Inquirer. As such, it is my duty."

"He had a generous mind; I don't suppose anybody ever had so many opinions."

"Sure, we're speaking, Jedediah: you're fired."

"Then last week, as it must to all men, death came to Charles Foster Kane."

"You long-faced, overdressed anarchist!"

"Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle—a missing piece."

"Throw that junk in."

"It’s not enough to tell us what a man did. You’ve got to tell us who he was."

"Seventy-five percent of our population is made up of the working class. I'm one of them."

"He’s a man who lost almost everything he had. Of course, he still has more than anybody else."

"If I can't be anything else, I'm going to be a nuisance."

"You’re making a mistake, Mr. Kane. A very great mistake."

"The truth is, Mr. Thatcher, that you’re talking to two people at once."

"What would you like to have been? Everything you hate."

"I’m not a man of destiny, Mr. Leland. I’m a man who owns a printing press."

"One more word out of you and I’ll send you back to Chicago!"

"I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen in my own home."

"You’re the only person I’ve ever fought with. It’s a very interesting feeling."

"Mr. Kane, you’re not a businessman. You’re a builder of monuments."

"I don’t know. I’m just a guy who works for a living."

"Maybe that’s what Rosebud was—something he couldn’t get, or something he lost."

"He was a great man. He had a great way of doing things."

"You’re staying here, Susan. You’re going to be a great singer."

"It’s a big place. A lot of things get lost here."

"The public is not as stupid as you think, Charlie."

"I’ve been wondering why you haven’t called me."

"I didn't know you were so interested in my health, Mr. Thatcher."

"You’re a very difficult man to talk to."

"I didn’t want to be a great man. I just wanted to be a man."

"The Inquirer is a newspaper. It’s not a social club."

"It’s a pity you don’t like me. I’m such a nice fellow."

"I’ve got no time to waste on people who don’t agree with me."

"You’re going to find out that money doesn’t buy everything."

"You’re a very lucky man, Mr. Kane."

"I don’t care what people think. I care what I think."

"You’re a very strange man."

"I’m not interested in what you have to say."

"He’s a man who has everything, and yet he has nothing."

"I’m not a politician. I’m a journalist."

"You’re a very clever man, Mr. Bernstein."

"I’ve never been so insulted in my life!"

"I’m not going to let you do this to me."

"You’re a very brave man, Mr. Kane."

"I’m not going to change. I’m too old for that."

"You’re a very lonely man, Mr. Kane."

"I’m not going to let you win."

"You’re a very ambitious man, Mr. Kane."

"I’m not going to be a part of this."

"You’re a very talented man, Mr. Leland."

"I’m not going to let you control my life."

"You’re a very powerful man, Mr. Kane."

"I’m not going to let you destroy me."

"You’re a very dangerous man, Mr. Kane."

"I’m not going to let you take everything I have."

"You’re a very selfish man, Mr. Kane."

"I’m not going to let you forget me."

"You’re a very complicated man, Mr. Kane."