William Halsey Quotes in Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: Where were ya?

William Halsey: It's the first of the moon.

Nate Salisbury: That's not what Buffalo Bill asked ya! Now where in the hell have you been?

William Halsey: During the first day of the first moon, Sitting Bull visits the sun in the mountains while his squaws move the teepees to the moon path.

Nate Salisbury: Damn it, Halsey! Stop sunning and mooning us! Now where the hell have you been?

William Halsey: Great Father, Sitting Bull has waited to ask you a very simple thing for his people.

President Grover Cleveland: Mr. Halsey, I remind you that in government, nothing is simple.

William Halsey: Sitting Bull says that history is nothing more than disrespect for the dead.

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: Tell me what you got on your mind.

William Halsey: [Speaking for Sitting Bull] Sitting Bull has said that he is here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by their will he is chief. His heart is red and sweet. Whatever passes near tries to lick him with its tongue, and the bears taste the honey, and the green leaves lick the sky. If the Great Spirit has chosen anyone to be leader of their land, it is Sitting Bull.

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: Halsey, you tell Sitting Bull that Buffalo Bill says his leaves can turn whichever way he wants as long as he knows which way the wind is blowing.

[Sits down. To his advisors]

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: I give him back the same kind of murky logic that he gave us. Whatya think, um?