Frank Sobotka quotes from The Wire

Sobotka

You know what the trouble is, Brucey? We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket.

Damn, Frank.

We just sat here and watched Nat Coxson take a shit all over you.

And the shrivelled dick motherfucker that you are, you take it.

Sobotka

For your information, I wake up every morning with an angry blue vein diamond cutter. I was gonna enlighten the President of the local 47 on this particular point, and he chose to depart. Blue steel gentlemen. Three and a half inches of hard blue steel.

Frank Sobotka

Why the fuck didn't you tell me what was in that motherfucking can?

Spiros

Now you wanna know what's in the cans? Before you wanted to know nothing. Now you ask. Guns, OK? Drugs, whore, vodka, BMWs. Beluga caviar, or bombs, maybe? Bad terrorists with big nuclear bombs. I'm kidding you, Frank, it's a joke. But you don't ask ... because you don't wanna know.

Sobotka

What do you say, Johnny? What do you say to any question?

I take the Fifth Commandment.

Name names, and come clean. You help yourself, and your union.

Sobotka

Help my union? For 25 years we've been dyin' slow down there. Dry dock's rustin', piers standin' empty. My friends and their kids like we got the cancer. No life-line got thrown all that time, nothin' from nobody, and now you wanna help us? Help me?