Narcos: Mexico Quotes (Season 1)

You want to hurt these guys, we gotta take down the ones calling the shots.[to Kiki]

When things go well, people start thinking it’s because they’re so f***ing smart.

Time is crucial in a kidnapping. The sooner action’s taken, the better your chances of things working out, and everybody coming home in one piece. They put that in the handbook nowadays. But on February 8, 1985, nobody knew s***. So what do you do? You f***ing scramble. Start spreading the word.

There is one problem with success. Not everyone can handle it.

Sometimes you need somebody to wake you the f*** up and tell you the shooting has started.

So how do you take down a crook who’s at the top of his game? Who has every cop in town in his pocket? Well, you hold your breath and you hope you get lucky.

When you start moving furniture around, people stub their toes and get upset.

What happened in Guadalajara gave birth to the first cartel. And from that, others would follow. And the violence and money and drugs, they just f***ing explode. It changed the DEA, too. Maybe it woke us up, I don’t know. But it’s where the first shot was fired, the one that started the drug war. And after that, none of it would be the same. How could it be?

What do you do when your drug protection decides to sit on the sidelines? Easy. You buy more.

The wheels of bureaucracy tend to move at their own speed.

No. Hippos don’t like Mexicans either.[Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo: Would you have really fed me to those hippos?]

It didn’t matter if we’d ever met him or not, Kiki Camarena was one of us. He was ours. And when he was killed, we knew we were in a war. Now, it was our turn. Pretty soon, they were gonna know, they were in one too.