You don’t think I’m gonna send any of my people up against Brother? S***, that n***er got more bodies on him than a Chinese cemetery.[to Stringer, about Brother Mouzone]
You don’t look at what you did before, you do the same s*** all over.
You do not play the game for yourself, you play it for us.[to Freamon]
You can say you’re somebody new, you can give yourself a whole new story. But, what came first is who you really are and what happened before is what really happened. And it don’t matter that some fool say he different ’cause the only thing that can make you different is what you really do or what you really go through.
You can look him in the eye now. No matter who he is, or what he’s done, you can look him right in the eye.[to Michael, after he kills someone for the first time]
You can go a long way in this country killing black folk. Young males especially. Misdemeanor homicides.
Yo, we always in the market for a good soldier. When we see one we like, we take care of his situation. Take him in, school him, make him family. And if you with us, you with us. Just like we be with you, all the way.[to Michael]
World just keeps turning, right? You guys move on to something new, no one looks back.[to Freamon]
Who in this f***ing unit is gonna catch me? Most of the guys up here couldn’t catch the clap in a Mexican whorehouse.[to Bunk]
Whatever it was, they don’t teach it in law school.[to Bond, after Senator Davis was acquitted despite strong charges]
What’s the most useless thing on a woman? A drunken Irishman.[to McNulty]
What kind of detective would I be if I couldn’t track a white woman in Baltimore, right?