Trick them into thinking they aren’t learning, and they do.
Tomorrow night, I will kick his ass. But the next morning, I still wake up white in a city that ain’t.[about Royce]
Tomorrow ain’t promised to no one.
This game is rigged, man. We like the little bitches on a chessboard.[to McNulty]
This ain’t about your motherf***ing business class either. It ain’t that part of it. It’s that other thing. The street is the street. Always.[to Stringer]
They say a police is only as good as his informants. Meaning, we ain’t about much.[to Beadie]
They playing you with that “We’re family, and it’s all about love.” That’s how they do. When they got no more use for you, that family s*** disappears. It’s just about business.[to Donette]
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 gonna tear this building down, they gonna build some new s***. But people? They don’t give a f*** about people.[to Poot]
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]
