''George, most people hate me. But I don't like them either, so that makes it all even. You know just as well as I do that I run practically everything in this town but the Bailey Building and Loan. You know, also, that for a number of years I've been trying to get control of it...or kill it. But I haven't been able to do it.... You wouldn't mind living in the nicest house in town, buying your wife a lot of fine clothes, a couple of business trips to New York a year.... You wouldn't mind that, would you, George?''

— Herbert Potter (Lionel Barrymore) offering a deal to George Bailey (James Stewart) in It's a Wonderful Life


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