Aaron Hotchner quotes from Criminal Minds

Hotchner

How many others are there?

I only have a few hours left and, though I like you – and I do like you – I'd like to be alone now. [offering his hand for a shake] Good meeting you, Hotch.

Hotchner

[ignoring his hand] I'm not done yet.

Oh, me neither.

Morgan

[regarding Max Ryan] I heard he was forced into early retirement.

Hotchner

No, he chose to retire.

Reid

He's written a new book on the Keystone Killer case.

Hotchner

He moved to Philadelphia to be closer to the crime scenes.

Greenaway

That's retirement?

Morgan

BAU style.

Reid

What do you think of Ryan?

Hotchner

He hasn't changed much.

Reid

I think we can learn a lot from him.

Hotchner

What could you possibly learn that you don't already know?

Reid

Hotch, repetitive thinking is a death mill for the brain. For complete brain usage, diverse stimulation is the key.

Gideon

Children?

Hotchner

They're fine. We got them out before they got here. We took down these four.

Reid

Without firing a shot?

John Blackwolf

Captain America here shot number five.

Hotchner

You're welcome. Number six is cut up pretty bad. I don't think he's gonna make it.

John Blackwolf

At least I didn't shoot him.

Morgan

I think I'd rather be shot.

Hotchner

There's an old Apache saying: "You can take many paths to get to the same place."

Hotchner

OK, here's what we know: Blitz attackers are almost always male.

Morgan

Well, he got picked up in the pouring rain by a New York cabbie, so we definitely know he's not a brother.

Gideon

Gandhi said, "Better to be violent, if there's violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence."

Hotchner

Gandhi also said, "I object to violence because, when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

[watching Hotchner hold his son] You're holding him like a cantaloupe.

Hotchner

What, you think you can do better? Okay, smartypants, knock yourself out. [he hands her the baby] It's okay, it's for the... [the baby quiets down in her arms] Alright, let's see you profile a disorganized psychopath.

Garcia

Aaron, do you have any idea how many people drown every day?

Hotchner

Well, yeah. There're more in the summer for obvious reasons, but I think it averages to about sixty-five hundred a year, which is 17 a day?

Garcia

Is this Reid?

Hotchner

What, are you impressed?

Garcia

I am, Slick, I am.

Gideon

Then we have to assume the mole has an exit strategy.

Hotchner

Only now we're blocking the exit, and the only way out is through us.

Hotchner

Hey, don't knock family. I'm gonna get nothing but for the next 36 hours.

Morgan

Hmm, good for you.

Hotchner

Haley's got a list of chores a mile long and I can't wait. The biggest decision I gotta make is what I'm gonna do first.

Greenaway

I bet you she has a thought or two about that as well.

Hotchner

Bring it on.

Haley

[discussing Jack's medical condition] At home with my mom. I didn't want him here while we were talking. Look, I know this job is important to you, but we're important, too.

Hotchner

You don't have to tell me that.

Haley

I don't want you to wake up some day in some random city and realize that you don't know your own son.

Greenaway

[reading the headline] Stripping Bandit. That's terrible. That makes it sound like the bandit's doing the stripping.

Reid

What would you call him?

JJ

Pervert.

Greenaway

Scumbag.

Morgan

I'd call him an ass.

Hotchner

Hey, focus, please.

Gideon

Save one life, we save the world.

Hotchner

Yeah. Well, one thing that I didn't tell the trainees.

Gideon

What's that?

Hotchner

We do not get paid enough.

Gideon

You got that right.

Hotchner

You tend to forget, don't you?

Gideon

What?

Hotchner

All the different moods on the plane. I think the mindset's different when the victims are still alive.

Hotchner

[after Lisa Blake's rape] Excuse me, how bad were her injuries?

She's lucky, they're relatively minor.

Hotchner

Do me a favor? Don't tell her that she's lucky.