Show me the money

Rod Tidwell: Anyone else would have left you by now, but I'm sticking with you. And if I have to ride your ass like Zorro, you're gonna show me the money.

[He says he does have a favorite person to work with:] [Tom] Cruise, man. No contest. He was very kind to me. It was my first movie ( ... 1996). He could have been an absolute jerk and I wouldn't have known any better.

You had me at hello.

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

He's not just coming just to ask for a lot more money here or there, ... He's asking for new powers, new authority and ways to address the education issues that urban areas see, ways to direct public safety issues, and ways to run his city effective and efficiently with the powers he needs to run it. And that's going to be a message heard by the Republicans that control the General Assembly.