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Boss 1×8

Mayor Tom Kane: By the time this day ends, every person who has plotted against me will feel the force of my wrath. No one will be left unscathed. No one.

Meredith Kane: When?
Mayor Tom Kane: Everything happens today.

Sam Miller: All right, stop. Honestly, sincerely, who gives a fuck about this election? Nothing's changing here. Not the people running, not the way they do business, and not our stories. Here's what we're going to do...

Mayor Tom Kane: All of them in on it, right under our noses. Boy... When you stop being able to see the angles, fuck. Something this big...
Ezra Stone: Making it from one day to the next isn't clean or pretty, it's messy. But if you've survived the day, then you've survived, that's it. It's all that matters.

Ezra Stone: It's not that they think of you as a good guy, but they do see you as a father in pain. They sympathize, and that's the mother lode in terms of connecting with voters. What you did was... It worked. Painful, but politically, it worked. They relate to you out there.

Emma Kane: What, you want me to heal my relationship with God? He let me down. What I did was right. Where is He?
Rector: What are you saying? That somehow you are owed something? That you can strike some kind of deal with God? You don't follow rules so that God will provide you with a safety net. The real test is when you don't hear anything at all from Him and you still follow Him. He didn't let you down because He doesn't owe you anything. If you never saw the transcendent in all of this, if the church was just some form of self-imposed stricture to keep you sober, how did you expect it to work? You can't trick it, Emma. That's not how it works...

Mayor Tom Kane: I'm not going anywhere. My back's against the wall. You know it. I know it. So from where I stand, I'm only hitting back. I will survive today, I will survive tomorrow, and the next day, one day at a time. Where do you want to be when I do?...

Ezra Stone: ...men like you never leave. The system isn't designed to cleanse itself of a Tom Kane. You stay and hold onto power beyond when you should, and in so doing, bring corruption to everything while you remain. You need to be pushed.

Ezra Stone: You don't have a choice. Punishment should always be commensurate to the crime. It should be proportionate and visible. A punishment is not only an act of retribution, it's also a signal. It needs to be seen and understood by anyone else who might have flirted with the notion of committing the same transgression.
     And it's a signal that no one is exempt from the consequences of betrayal.
     There's a formal aspect to punishment, a ritual nature. It has shape and body. It's about consequence, accountability. Actions having repercussions.
     It's vital that the transgressors understand the rules they have broken.
     Your choice of punishment needs to be seen as fair, proportional and reciprocal. But the nature can only be decided by the punisher himself. You. You decide. The boss.

Ben Zajac: It's okay. Guess it wouldn't be Chicago politics without a little spilled blood, right?

Gerald 'Babe' McGantry: You want to build a reputation for yourself apart from the family's. And that is a fine thing. A necessary thing. But this family has been sailing a boat with City Hall from the time the building itself went up.

Gerald 'Babe' McGantry: Continuity at all costs. Leaving the landscape unchanged or changed in appearance only. It is how we've gotten to where we are and how we stay here for the future.

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