Stasis

Boss 1×7

Ezra Stone: If you have anything, any wild card, whatsoever, now's the time to play it.
Mayor Tom Kane: I'll ride it out.
Ezra Stone: Tom.
Mayor Tom Kane: I'll ride it out. Two days is 48 hours, is enough time to deliberate properly.

Mayor Tom Kane: Maybe they're right...
Kitty O'Neill: Sir?
Mayor Tom Kane: People out there. Not in their appraisal of me, but...
Kitty O'Neill: Yes, sir?
Mayor Tom Kane: But the timing. Comes a time you have to ask, "Why? Is it worth it?" Yeah, maybe that's how you finally calculate that it's time to do something else... Step down...

Sam Miller: And who's the source for these two quotes you don't credit?
Sentinel Colleague: Wikipedia.
Sam Miller: You're fucking kidding me. Dot com, forward slash, unacceptable. Fix it.

Sam Miller: What makes you think I want to be editor?
Peter Baine: Aside from the fact that you're still wet behind the ears enough to ask such a brash, rhetorical question?

Meredith Kane: Then you do it by sticking to the three basic linchpins of American politics... Money, muscle, and the neutralization of one's enemies.

Alderman Ross: Step down? That man will crawl inside the walls of City Hall and die with the other rats before he walks out willingly.

Mayor Tom Kane: Shake the tree, bad apples do fall.

Mayor Tom Kane: Sit down... I've asked you before, do you know who the fuck I am?.. Right now, in this moment, I am the angel of fucking death for you. And the next few minutes are gonna feel like perdition itself if you don't tell me what I need to know... Nod... You wanna play? Let's fucking play.

Mayor Tom Kane: How small. How pedestrian, how fucking cheap. Do you understand how little your petty act of defiance even registers? And to what end? Make your mundane, inconsequential life mean something? You want to feel, is that it? Feel needed? Worth it? You want to fucking matter? You don't. You don't fucking matter. Whatever station you occupy, others have given you, those of us who make things, who matter. And you know this. That's your burden, that forever, no matter how hard you work, how many futile sacrifices you make, how deeply you commit, you know it will always be another's hand that feeds you. Because that's what you are, that's what you'll always be. Dependent.

Ezra Stone: Tom, you okay?
Mayor Tom Kane: No.
Ezra Stone: Should I ask?
Mayor Tom Kane: Not now.

Ezra Stone: I'm sorry, but this is something that can't wait any longer. Public opinion, Tom. The time to ride things out is past. We have less than a day. Whatever you have, if you have anything, it's now or never. Otherwise tomorrow will be a bloodbath. Everything, really, will be over.
Mayor Tom Kane: Just give me five minutes...

Mayor Tom Kane: You know, I'm not really up on my Bible, but isn't there something in there about how there's a time to eat shit? Wish that you'd done everything different the first time?
Emma Kane: Close enough.

Gerald 'Babe' McGantry: Nothing like the bond of betrayal to keep you two in bed together.

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