THATCHER
I came to see you about this campaign of yours. The Inquirer's campaign against the Public Transit Company.

KANE
Mr. Thatcher, do you know anything we could use against them?

THATCHER
Still the college boy, aren't you?

KANE
Oh, no, Mr. Thatcher. I was expelled from college, a lot of colleges. You remember. I remember.

THATCHER
Charles. I think I should remind you of a fact that you seem to have forgotten.

KANE
Yes.

THATCHER
You are yourself one of the largest individual stockholders in Public Transit Company.

KANE
Mr. Thatcher, the trouble is you don't realize you're talking to two people. As Charles Foster Kane, who owns eighty-two thousand
three hundred and sixty-four shares of Public Transit prefer, you see, I do have a general idea of my holdings. I sympathize with
you. Charles Foster Kane is a scoundrel, his paper should be run out of town and a committee should be formed to boycott him. You
may, if you can form such a committee, put me down for a contribution of one thousand dollars.

THATCHER
My time is too valuable for me...

KANE
On the other hand, I am the publisher of the Inquirer. As such, it is my duty, I'll let you in on a little secret, it is also my
pleasure – to see to it that decent, hard-working people of this community aren't robbed blind by a pack of money-mad pirates just
because they haven't anybody to look after their interests! I'll let you in on another little secret, Mr. Thatcher. I think I'm
the man to do it. You see I have money and property. If I don't look after the interests of the underprivileged, maybe somebody
else will, maybe somebody without any money or property and that would be too bad.
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