“Not For Attribution” quotes from The Wire

Bunk

You're going to jail behind this shit. Yes, you are. You know what they do to police in jail? Pretty police like yourself? Motherfucker, we have kids. Houses. Car payments. Furniture--Jimmy, I just bought brand new lawn chairs and a glass patio table. Now you don't buy no shit like that if you planning to lose your job and go to prison. You won't even get past the ME.

McNulty

Watch me.

Bunk

You're dumpin' murders on us that we can't solve, you're fucking the squad's clearance rate.

McNulty

Fuck the fucking numbers already! The fucking numbers destroyed this fucking department. Landsman and his clearance rate can suck a hairy asshole.

Bunk

Marlo ain't worth it, man. Nobody is.

McNulty

Marlo's an asshole. He does not get to win. WE get to win!

Norman

Daniels isn't ready. He's only been colonel for a year.

Carcetti

A year will do in a pinch. You float it with one of your bunkies on Calvert Street. See how it plays.

Norman

Burrell reads that, he'll shit melons.

Carcetti

I fucking hope so. It's Baltimore. No one lives forever.

Michael

Everything so serious now.

Proposition Joe

[on Marlo] It ain't easy civilizin' this motherfucker.

Ain't no other way. I can see that.