Joe Coughlin: "Do you think we that we got where we are by letting some inbreds muscle us?"
Virgil Beauregard: "If that's what you think we are, you're making a fatal miscalculation. We're clerks and bankers and police officer, and we even got a judge, and if you're dumb enough to fight us, I'm going to rain bloody hellfire down on you and all you love."
Joe Coughlin: "So you're threatening me with people who are more powerful than you?"
Virgil Beauregard: "Exactly."
Joe Coughlin: "So what am I talking to you for?"