[about Brother Mouzone] You don't think I'm gonna send any of my people up against Brother? Shit, That nigga got more bodies on him than a Chinese cemetery.
S2 E9Stray Rounds
Now the votes are in, and you're movin' your damn golf trophies upstairs to the Commissioner's office, now you're freezin' me out, huh? Fuckin' rat-fucker's, all of ya'. This is my case, mine! And now you're gonna tell me who the target is? Well not fuckin' likely.
[during extended surveillance detail, Herc takes a picture of Carver]
Hey, don't waste film.
We've been here so fucking long that you're startin' to look good to me.
McNulty [about the two hookers in the sting operation] There were two of them. I was outnumbered.
[after a botched attempt to dispose guns in Baltimore harbor fails] It ain't enough I gotta be the one thinking this whole shit through. But I gotta be the one looking out for this shit and checking on this, making sure this shit is done. No, that's not enough. That's why they pay CEOs so much money; cause when shit go bad, it fall of them. Everybody else can be ducking and hiding, doing what they fucking wanna do. And when push come to shove, I'm the one that's gotta take the responsibility, and y'all are leaving me very little to work with right now!
Hold up, String-
No, that's a very simple thing, my nigga. You drive the guns to the water. You look around, you ain't see anybody, you throw the guns. In the water. Splash.
CCole
Nobody ever thinks they're stupid; it's part of their stupidity.
S2 E10Storm Warnings
Lamar, where's my Harper's?
LLamar
Say wha'?
Harper's. The new issue.
LLamar
You didn't say that one. You said The New Republic, and Atlantic, and a new somethin' else.
I did not forget to tell you Harper's. Every week I tell you the same shit, and every week you forget half of what I say.
You see these east-side motherfucker's over here? I want'chu to extend to these motherfucker's all the hospitality west Baltimore is famous for.
Yeah, you want us to fuck 'em up.
You mean to tell me there's a west-side nigga that know how to sell shit without stickin' a pistol in a fiends face?
Yeah dog, and you better get used it, 'cause ya'll ain't sellin shit, until we bone-ass dry!
[to Cheese, after shooting him] Pellets in plastic. Rat shot. What you need to be concerned about is what's seated in the chamber now: a copper-jacketed, hollow point 120-grain hot street load of my own creation. So you need to think for just a moment and ask yourself: what do I have to do before this man raise up his gun again?
ZZiggy
It pays to go with the union card every time.
S2 E11Bad Dreams
ARAmanda Reese
Name names, and come clean. You help yourself, and your union.
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?
[about Nick Sobotka] You don't have to worry about Nicko...
You are fond of him Spiros. You should have had a son.
But then I would have had a wife.
A different look for our boy.
Yeah, Perry Ellis, or something.
Now, how would a just-rolled-out-of-bed-looking motherfucker like you, know the designer?
[pauses] Okay, I'm guessing.
It's a Joseph Abboud. He puts dark buttons instead of brass on his blazers. That's the Abboud signature.
You know what they call a guy who pays that much attention to his clothes, don't you?
Mm-hmm, a grown-up.
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.
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