Peter Burke quotes from White Collar

Peter

[speaking to the prison warden] I know I spent three years of my life chasing him, and you let him walk out the front door.

Peter

Neal Caffrey, he's one of our art consultants.

Peter

It's probably for the best.

Peter

Ok, we stop the judge from taking the Sullivan home. Then we get her disrobed. [Neal raises his eyebrows] You know what I meant... If we lean on her hard enough, she'll flip on Fowler. [Neal smirks and walks away] You know what I meant! ...That's not what I meant...

Peter

Neal was a felon. He was convicted of bond forgery. And as you can see in those files, he was suspected of doing a hell of a lot of other things. Yeah, Neal was a pain in the ass. So did somebody from that past want him dead? Maybe. But he also helped me clear a 93% conviction rate. And that makes enemies, too.

Peter

I wear a Badge, he wears a Tracking-Anklet! Applications are on the table!

Peter

We've been playing by Keller's rules. Let's change the game.

Peter

In three months you could be a free man.

Peter

I said sit on a bench, not reenact Dead Poet Society.

Peter

Agent Wesley did not graduate from Quantico so that he could write your case reports.

Peter

If you work hard, swing the fences, anything is possible.

Peter

There are things in the past, that live in the past.

Peter

This trip doesn't have big brother's blessing.

Peter

[After receiving his new assignment] You're sending me to the cave?

Peter

I work hard. I do my job well. And I don't have a ten million dollar view of Manhattan that I share with a 22 year old art student while we sip espresso!

Neal Caffrey

Why not?

Peter Burke

Why not?! Because I'm not supposed to. The amount of work I do equals certain things in the real world. Not cappuccino in the clouds.

Neal

Look, I will find out where June buys her coffee if it's that important.

Peter

It's not about the coffee.

Neal

I think it is.

Peter

No it's not. [pause] This is what gets you into trouble. This is the start of those something-for-nothing schemes that lead to the frauds that got you locked up.

Neal

I think it's some sort of Italian roast.

Peter

Get in the car.

Peter

No, you don't get to lecture me about relationships. My wife didn't change her identity and flee the country to get away from me. [Neal looks stricken.] That was harsh, I didn't mean that.

Neal

Yeah you did. [Peter doesn't argue.] Did she really flee the country?

Peter

I don't know.

Neal

France, did she go to France?

Peter

I don't know!