Citizen Kane Quotes

NARRATOR: Kane's empire, in its glory, held dominion over thirty-seven newspapers, thirteen magazines, a radio network. An empire upon an empire. The first of grocery stores, paper mills, apartment...

NARRATOR: Denver's Bonfils and Sommes; New York's late, great Joseph Pulitzer; America's emperor of the news syndicate, another editorialist and landlord, the still mighty and once mightier Hearst....

KANE SENIOR: You're going to be rich. Your Ma figures—that is—she and I have decided that this isn't the place for you to grow up in.

NARRATOR: Kane, molder of mass opinion though he was, in all his life was never granted elective office by the voters of his country.

In the same position appears the tiny figure of Charles Foster Kane, aged five (almost like an animated cartoon). He is in the act of throwing a snowball.

KANE: You mustn't go, Susan. Everything'll be exactly the way you want it. Not the way I think you want it—by your way. Please, Susan—Susan!