Tick, Tick, Tick (1970)

Fredric March: Mayor Jeff Parks

Quotes 

• Mayor Jeff Parks : Anything happens with this colored boy, we'll have the Washington peek-a-boos all over Colusa County by sundown. And we don't want that! You understand me?

• Mayor Jeff Parks : I reckon you know some of the problems you're liable to run into.

  Jimmy Price : I was born in this town, Mayor.

  Mayor Jeff Parks : When you hit a wall, you think you can't climb over, dug under or go through, you come to me. Don't go pickin' up that phone to call Washington or the NAACP. If you hit a snag, come to me with it first. It might be can get it unsnagged for ya.

  Jimmy Price : What if you can't, Mayor?

  Mayor Jeff Parks : How's that?

  Jimmy Price : Suppose I have a problem and you can't help me solve it?

  Mayor Jeff Parks : Well, all I'm asking you to do is give me a chance to try. Is that asking too much?

  Jimmy Price : You weren't asking, Mayor, you were telling.

  Mayor Jeff Parks : Well, I'm used to telling! I ain't used to askin'.

• John Little : What am I supposed to do?

  Mayor Jeff Parks : That depends.

  John Little : On what?

  Mayor Jeff Parks : On whether you mind being called a nigger-lover.

• Mayor Jeff Parks : Look, Price, I'm an old man. I don't see too well anymore. You tell me. Is John Little white or black?

  Jimmy Price : Well, I'd say he's kind of - off-white?