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| Tommy: | But the Callahan Factory has been in my family for seventy years; you can't just shut it down. |
| Zalinsky: | Son, you gotta look at it from my point of view: Callahan's a premium name, that's what I'm buying. I can make the parts in one of my factories, put them in a Callahan box, and sell them in my stores at a premium price. Why keep your factory going when all I want's the damn box? |
| Tommy: | I'll tell you why, because there's a town involved here. Callahan Factory's the only thing keeping it alive. |
| Zalinsky: | Look, believe it or not, I'm providing a service, I'm thinning the corporate herd. The weaker animals always go. So the kids cry when you tie old tiger to a tree and shoot him, but that's life. America's in a state of renewal. We've gotta have the strength to tie a few factories to a tree and bash them with a shovel. Meanwhile, if I can grab your share of the market, put a little coin in my pocket, by being the asshole, well, what the hell? Know what I mean? |
| Tommy: | Boy, you sure are different in your TV commercials. |
| Zalinsky: | What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public, alright? Hell, folks believe me when I tell them: we're not just building automotive components here, we're adding horsepower to American industry. Yeah, television's been good to me, son. "I make car parts for the American working man, because that's what I am, and that's who I care about." Heh! The truth is: I make car parts for the American working man, because I'm a hell of a salesman, and he doesn't know any better. |
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