Jim Gordon quotes from Gotham

Jim Gordon

I promise you, however dark and scary the world might be right now... there will be light. There will be light, Bruce.

Jim Gordon

The city's sick. Sick in a way I hadn't realized.

Jim Gordon

Barbara... This city... the law, the crime here, they're all... twisted up in each other like a maze. I came here to be a cop. This city needs something else.

Jim Gordon

You know what I like about those glasses? [shoots Kasich in the eye] They look like bullseyes.

Jim Gordon

An assassin kills four cops, dares me to pull the trigger, and I don't. Explain that to me.

Jim Gordon

From the first day I put on the badge, I was told things could never change. Gotham was corrupt. GCPD was corrupt. Criminals and low-lives ran things. You just showed me different. Penguin will be coming. It's time we showed Gotham who we are. Suit up!

Jim Gordon

Here's how it's gonna go: You're gonna start talking, or I'm gonna stop caring if you can talk, you got it?

Jim Gordon

This is a message to the followers of Jeremiah Valeska. Jeremiah claims to have killed me. Well, bad news, I'm alive. So just know you are worshipping a fraud, a pale imitation of Jerome. You did your worst, Jeremiah, and I'm still here.

Jim Gordon

I know you're all asking, "Why are we still here when our own government wont help us?" Simple. We're supposed to giving these people hope. Hope that if they're in danger, someone will come. We will come. Suit up!

Jim Gordon

Son, if you're gonna stick a gun in my face, you should at least know that you're doing it wrong.

Fish Mooney

You have a little danger in your eye. I wonder what you plan to do with that.

Jim Gordon

You'll have to wait and see.

Carmine Falcone

Pepper was sacrificed so that the people of Gotham would see swift justice done, so they can feel safe and secure.

Jim Gordon

And that matters so much to you.

Carmine Falcone

Of course. I'm a businessman. You can't have organized crime without law and order. I love this city, and I see it going to hell. But I won't let it fall apart without a fight.

Jim Gordon

You make a life of crime sound very noble.

Carmine Falcone

You have a hard head, James, just like your father. Don't be self-righteous. Don't be arrogant.

Jim Gordon

You want me to keep quiet about all this?

Carmine Falcone

Gotham is on a knife edge. What do you suppose bringing down City Hall and the police force will do, even if you could? Would it make things better?

Bruce Wayne

I'm learning to conquer fear.

Jim Gordon

Fear doesn't need conquering. Fear tells you where the edge is. Fear is a good thing.

Alfred Pennyworth

And you think I haven't told him that, have you?

Harvey Bullock

How now so righteous? Hmm? Not long since you put a man in the river.

Jim Gordon

You want to say that a little louder? Not everybody heard.

Harvey Bullock

Ever since then, you've been a royal pain in the ass. You think I or anybody around here gives a crap about a dead snitch or your guilty conscience?

Alfred Pennyworth

Bruce's father gave me very firm orders was him and his missus to die. Now, I will raise the boy the way his father told me to raise him.

Jim Gordon

Which is how?

Alfred Pennyworth

Trust him to choose his own course. He is, after all, a Wayne.