The Best Captain Sam Bennet Quotes

Captain: He let the killers in himself? Why would he do a thing like that?
Bullitt: I'm waiting to ask him.
Captain: What about the setup? What do you make of that?
Bullitt: Shotgun and a backup man. Professionals.

Bullitt: [revealing Johnny Ross' death] I've got him downstairs, under a John Doe.
Baker: [stunned] You are sick. Smuggling a dead man out of a hospital, and now two men killed who may have had nothing to do with it?
Bullitt: The man I was chasing killed Ross.
Captain: How do you know? Did you see him?
Bullitt: Yes. He tried to nail me with a shotgun, a Winchester pump.
Baker: The radio report said the two men were burned beyond recognition. Now all he's got are two dead men. It would never hold up in court.

Captain: Albert Edward Renick, used car salesman, Chicago.
Chalmers: Who's Renick?
Bullitt: He was the man who was shot at the Hotel Daniels. You sent us to guard the wrong man, Mr. Chalmers.

Captain: Play it by the book from now on.
Bullitt: Does Chalmers run the case, or do I?
Captain: All I'm interested in is results. Do whatever you think is best. I'll try to back you up.