They manufactured an issue to get paid, we manufactured an issue to get you elected governor. Everybody’s getting what they need behind some make-believe.[to Carcetti, about police]
They f*** up, they get beat. We f*** up, they give us pensions.[about dealers]
They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you back out.
There were two of them. I was outnumbered.[about the two hookers in the sting operation]
There are different kinds of wrong.
Then, tragically, you will have wasted yet another day in a life you’ve already misspent in the service of the City of Baltimore.[Roland ‘Prez’ Pryzbylewski: What if they’re not sneaking anything off this time? What then?]
The king stay the king.
The gods are f***ing you, you find a way to f*** them back. It’s Baltimore, gentlemen. The gods will not save you.
The Bunk is strictly a suit-and-tie motherf***er. At all hazards, a man must keep up appearances. Dignity, I say. Dignity above all, Governor.
Sometimes things just got to play hard.
See, this is the thing that everyone knows and no one says. You follow the drugs, you get a drug case. You start following the money, you don’t know where you’re going.
Rats always run to holes in times of danger.
