True Enough

Boss 2×10

Ian Todd: By the way, I know we haven't discussed this, but I was assuming that with Mona's departure, I...
Mayor Tom Kane: Never assume anything.

Sam Miller: I get it, you're pals.
Mayor Tom Kane: Freedom of the press.
Sam Miller: I believe it was Liebling who said, "it can only be guaranteed by those who actually own one." And he meant that, owners of the press had the right to publish without government interference--
Mayor Tom Kane: Stop.

Sam Miller: Fuck! It's a good thing no one reads the paper anymore. Fuck!

Sam Miller: Fuck. Pull the online. Call the trucks back.
Jackie: Well, then have them pull the copy from the stands!
Sam Miller: Fuck! It's a good thing no one reads the paper anymore. Fuck! FUCK!!!

Mayor Tom Kane: Your proximity to me doesn't make you entitled to anything of mine. Anything. You want to move up, you earn it. Don't expect me to give it to you. And if I do, you damn well better appreciate it.

Mayor Tom Kane: Do you realize what you gave him?... Access. Influence. Power!

Mayor Tom Kane: Mortality is inevitable, but yours will forever be tied to mine. Remember that.

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Clinch

Boss 2×9

Mayor Tom Kane: Who the fuck do you think you are?
Governor McCall Cullen: The governor of the goddamn state, that's who.
Mayor Tom Kane: You have no idea...

Mayor Tom Kane: What qualifies someone, do you suppose, to run a city? .... Did you study law? Economics? Get elected? .... Do you really think I'd allow the likes of you to take this from me? A bean counter? A shyster? Someone who has more regard for the almighty dollar than the people of this city.

Alderman Ross: Why don't you just fucking roll over and die?
Mayor Tom Kane: Nice to see you, too, William.

Mona Fredricks: People forget a fundamental truth. Tom Kane always finds a way. The further you back him into a corner, the more painful the cuts when he fights his way out.

Meredith Kane: He's not on board.
Mayor Tom Kane: They say a mule will labor 10 years willingly and patiently for the privilege of kicking you just once.

Mayor Tom Kane: It's a sailor's term for being overtaken by misfortune. "Hard up in a clinch and no knife to cut the seizing."

Mayor Tom Kane: I'm not going anywhere.

Mayor Tom Kane: I wish City Hall was a taller building. Or closer to the water. Be nice to see the lake... Some believe you think more clearly near water. Have you heard that?

Ian Todd: Mr. Mayor, I cannot express to you strongly enough the urgency of the situation. I don't want to see you surrender. Tell me what to do and I'll do it.
Mayor Tom Kane: Good man. Another day...

Mona Fredricks: What about you? Who are you lying to? There was no political upside to the promises you made. So either you give a shit and you pussied out, or you're a motherfucking lunatic! Which is it, Tom?
Mayor Tom Kane: ... Your naivety was charming for a time, Miss Fredricks. Even enchanting. I wondered what it would feel like to bask in the admiration of someone so pure of intent. It was nice. But now I know... Don't bother to collect your things. I'll have someone send them along... And give my best to Bitsy.

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Consequence

Boss 2×8

Mayor Tom Kane: Behind you... The door.

Mayor Tom Kane: The food chain. Each layer of the hierarchy struggles, toils, exists, only to be consumed by a dominant species. Sound familiar? Grass, bugs, birds, snakes, and so on. One feeding the next, all the way up to the commanding predatory creatures. That is the order of things.

Ben Zajac: The puppet is cutting his strings. If I win, I win on my own. If I lose, so be it.

Mayor Tom Kane: The budget vote is tomorrow. Great men have compromised in times of trial and emerged the stronger. I intend to be among them.

Mayor Tom Kane: In times of desperation, we must sometimes sacrifice our darlings.

Mona Fredricks: What do we do?
Mayor Tom Kane: I don't know.

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The Conversation

Boss 2×7

Mayor Tom Kane: Press will get bored and move on. The riots were unfortunate, but the story will conclude, as they all do. In the meantime...

Meredith Kane: It's done, Babe.
Gerald 'Babe' McGantry: You fucking cunt. You're nothing. You're a goddamn dress form with a slit!
Meredith Kane: I am the constant. You were always a variable.

Sam Miller: You know, as much as I hate the bastard, Kane never fails to impress. He just dealt a race card from the bottom of the deck, sits back, relaxes, and lets the righteous indignation machine do the work for him. You know?

Mayor Tom Kane: I hired you for all the wrong reasons. You knew that, yet here you are. You knew how long the odds were, and yet you played. I envy you. After 20 years behind this desk, I've lost sight of why I started. And now here you are, a constant reminder.
Mona Fredricks: I'm no idealist.
Mayor Tom Kane: No, you're a realist who holds out hope. I don't know what lies ahead, but I promise you won't be blindsided...

Meredith Kane: Are you in love with her?
Mayor Tom Kane: ... Just obsessed?

Mayor Tom Kane: Confidence. It cuts both ways.

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Backflash

Boss 2×6

Ezra Stone: You're a chapter, a portrait, a handful of legislation, a thousand lies, and yet you cling to power, falsely believing you actually possess it. But your superiority of force, of will, your control, it's all an illusion because you're still dying, Tom! And that terrifies you, doesn't it? That you'll end up just like me. Dust no one misses.

Ezra Stone: You can't kill a dead man. But you can take responsibility.
Mayor Tom Kane: Fucking die already.

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Mania

Boss 2×5

Mayor Tom Kane: I have never benefited financially from elected office.
Ezra Stone: But others were allowed to prosper.
Mayor Tom Kane: Not with impunity, within reason.
Ezra Stone: And you did profit, Tom. Power is a form of currency.
Mayor Tom Kane: I've earned my standing.
Ezra Stone: You took it. Traded for it. A favor here, a blind eye there, the removal of obstacles, of people.
Mayor Tom Kane: The trouble is, it doesn't belong to just you anymore, this house you've built. You can't pull cards and expect it not to fall.

Ezra Stone: They say the measure of a man is what he does with power...

Mayor Tom Kane: Greed has no edges. No bottom. Always they want more.

Ben Zajac: What do you want to do?
Maggie Zajac: Nothing.
Ben Zajac: A single press appearance together. Mea culpa. And then we just hope that something shitty happens in the world and bumps us from the news cycle.

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Redemption

Boss 2×4

Ezra Stone: Invincibility is a myth, Tom. How long can you pretend?
Mayor Tom Kane: As long as hope still has its bit of green.
Ian Todd: All the King's Men.
Mayor Tom Kane: Dante, The Divine Comedy.

Mayor Tom Kane: At some point, I hope it dawns on you that simply doing your job well does not merit commendation.

Gerald 'Babe' McGantry: No one man is bigger than the machine. It corrects itself. Always.

Mayor Tom Kane: Gain their trust, secure their cooperation, and the rest will follow.

Mona Fredricks: Who's the traitor here, William?
Alderman Ross: Who isn't?

Meredith Kane: Some things are best left broken.

Mayor Tom Kane: I am not done yet. I will remove all obstructions. The thugs, criminal and financial, have no idea what's coming. Change according to my will. We've got a lot to do, you and I... I love you.

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Ablution

Boss 2×3

Mayor Tom Kane: Conflicts, entanglements, moves? You've just described my job. And in 20 years, no one's ever shot at me for it.

Mayor Tom Kane: Usually I'd speak to family members about this, but under the circumstances...
Dr. Ella Harris: Yeah, hardly the proper time to gauge that particular symptom, don't you think?
Mayor Tom Kane: .... Same old prick I've always been.
Dr. Ella Harris: Any hallucinations?
Mayor Tom Kane: As a matter of fact...
Dr. Ella Harris: You're having one now?

Mayor Tom Kane: He'll fit in... I wonder what it's like to take the shape of the space you're in.
Ezra Stone: Not enough water in the world.

Mayor Tom Kane: I hired you both for a reason. Never question my judgment. That's all.

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Through and Through

Boss 2×2

Mayor Tom Kane: No, what are you doing here? How, where, who, et cetera? And don't simply remind me that you're on loan from some other office, because a kid with your inexperience doesn't land a position like this unless he's fucking somebody, hard, in either sense of the word.
Ian Todd: Well, um... Where do I start?

Ben Zajac: I don't know. You're both right. It could look exploitative on one hand, and it's now or never on the other.
Maggie Zajac: The public will eat this up, as they should.

Chaplain: She never expressed her own wishes one way or another?
Mayor Tom Kane: A rare omission for a woman who always made her wishes known. She was more of a "my will" than a "thy will" kind of person. Is more of one, rather. I don't know, maybe it doesn't make a difference either way. God will not be mocked.

Mona Fredricks: What's our Plan B if the vote doesn't go our way?
Alderman Ross: It's going our way! If I have to buy a vote or two to make it so, then welcome to Chicago. But over my dead body will the Gardens be torn down by this cracker-ass fascist in suspenders after all the shit he's pulled right under our eyes.

Ian Todd: I work for the Mayor. And as long as you keep up this kind of routine, you might as well work for your father.
Emma Kane: How so?
Ian Todd: Nothing empowers him more than having big problems and solving them. Right now, you are one of the biggest.

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Louder Than Words

Boss 2×1

Mayor Tom Kane: I have to get back. Work to do.
Dr. Ella Harris: The tremors can be suppressed for a time, but without neuroleptics...
Mayor Tom Kane: Awareness. Force of will.

Dr. Ella Harris: You're not God. You don't want to shake? How do you feel about seeing monsters or believing you can fly? Your personality, your judgment, the way you look at the world, all those things will be compromised. Soon.
Mayor Tom Kane: Purpose. I have purpose.

Dr. Ella Harris: Mr. Mayor, you have to know, your best days are behind you.

Driver: Mr. Stone was a good man.
Mayor Tom Kane: It's what you leave behind.

Mayor Tom Kane: Strangers, acquaintances... None of you have any idea who I am. No speech. No press for anyone. Let them just sit there and listen. Keep their damn mouths shut.

Meredith Kane: He's sick, Daddy. You may outlive him after all.

Sam Miller: It's this kind of crap that makes it impossible to do what we need to do. Kissing ad exec ass. Who are we writing for, fucking Macy's?
Jackie: At least you're in the VIP section, have a good view.
Sam Miller: Of mayoral masturbation? It's not what I signed up for.
Jackie: No? Well, that's what everyone else will be doing, too, if it's any consolation.
Sam Miller: It's not.

Mayor Tom Kane: This airport expansion was necessary 22 years ago, and yet it is only just today that we begin to break ground to lay stone... I'm not gonna lie to you. I am grateful and proud that on my watch the obstructionists were vanquished... But there is more to do. And it can't wait. Not 20 years, not 10, not two.

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Choose

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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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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Spit

Boss 1×6

Elliot McGantry: The choice is his, sort of. I mean, does man really have free choice? Brothers Karamazov, "The Grand inquisitor." It changed my life.

Mayor Tom Kane: When you choose between the lesser of two evils, your choice is still evil.
Ryan Kavanaugh: A necessary evil. You do something bad to do something good.

Mayor Tom Kane: See, the thing is one necessary evil leads to another until one day you can't differentiate between what's necessary and what's merely expedient. And when that happens, you're done. You're a monster.

Ryan Kavanaugh: Nice guys don't turn dumps into city parks or force landlords to clean up slums. Not here.
Mayor Tom Kane: It's nice here. I should've visited before.
Ryan Kavanaugh: Yeah, try touring your city some time. See what the monster has built.

Meredith Kane: It's hard to imagine, isn't it? The city without him, him without it. But then, not impossible...

Ryan Kavanaugh: Some deals are worth doubling down on.

Kitty O'Neill: Bensenville class action suit. I spoke with them this morning. They have us over a barrel--
Mayor Tom Kane: Stop. Do you know who I am?
Kitty O'Neill: Yes, sir, I believe so.
Mayor Tom Kane: Spectators stand on the sidelines shaking their heads, lacking the balls. Do you know what I mean?
Kitty O'Neill: No, sir.
Mayor Tom Kane: When Truman nuked Japan, when Lincoln sent boys out to kill their cousins, you think they gave a shit about their approval rating?
Kitty O'Neill: No, sir.
Mayor Tom Kane: Fuck the spectators. If there's another city in this country that takes better care of its citizens, you tell me now which one you think it is... Anyone?... Good. If in the course of doing what I believe is best for this city, there is collateral damage, who here wants to explain to me the position of those on the sidelines shaking their heads?... Good. Now you were saying about this lawsuit?
Kitty O'Neill: Nothing, sir.
Mayor Tom Kane: Just get me a deal. I will settle this one.

Mayor Tom Kane: The art of political survival, one day at a time. You make it through one, then the next. String enough days together, people forget. They move on to newer matters.

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Remembered

Boss 1×5

Mayor Tom Kane: Why bother with the muffin? Eat a cracker... I don't like half-assed. That's what I'm saying. If somebody's coming at me, I'd just as soon get hit all at once.

Mayor Tom Kane: Anything said in this room is off the record.
Sam Miller: In this room?

Kitty O'Neill: How did you know that, that guy was going to say that?
Ezra Stone: I didn't. But people always remember what they see with their hearts and not their heads. And a guy like that, apply the right kind of pressure, nine times out of 10, he will break your heart.
Kitty O'Neill: And put a face to this whole thing.

Ezra Stone: You squint at this right, you come out looking like a hero.

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Swallow

Boss 1×3

Mayor Tom Kane: Some things are not reversible.

Dilip: We've run the hypotheticals, and in every iteration, it is better for you to remain ambiguous about your sexual orientation than to admit to taking illegal amounts of out-of-state money.
Governor McCall Cullen: Are you telling me it's better if people think I suck cock? No offense.
Cullen's Male Aide: I'm not gay.

Mayor Tom Kane: Until it's something, it's nothing and we don't want to shine a light on nothing.

Cullen's Aide: We could try a Barton, sir.
Governor McCall Cullen: What?
Cullen's Aide: David Barton. He used Facebook and got 20,000 hits in one day. Fields, when he ran for Lieutenant Governor, won the primary by 5,000 votes, said it never would've happened without social media. What we do is we put your face to the right of your profile page...
Governor McCall Cullen: What is this, the fucking children's crusade? This is a primary. Primary. We're talking about political obsessives, medicaiders, nothing-to-doers, geriatrics. Who the fuck else cares about primaries? And you're showing me fucking Facebook? For them it's a photo album. Get that thing out of my face.

Mayor Tom Kane: Panem et circenses... Panem et circenses. We have neglected our duties. The people wait for only bread and circuses.

Mayor Tom Kane: Moral turpitude. That's what I want to talk about. You know why? Because, even though I am a bad man and have done some bad fucking things, I've always known why. And when I look into the face of another bad man, I see his deeds and I know his fucking soul. You know what I see when I look at you, Mac? A piece of shit, a stain, a man whose moral turpitude taints the office he has sworn to uphold, compromises the people he has sworn to serve and who doesn't even have the fucking competence to do bad things well.

Mayor Tom Kane: You don't deserve your position. You don't deserve your place and title. What you have, I gave you. You want to help me? You don't have the stuff it takes. So thank you for your offer to help, Governor, but I'm afraid I must decline. Get the fuck out of my office.

Jack Bentley: Corruption in Chicago? That's not news. That's a history lesson.
Sam Miller: That's because you don't know where I'm going with it.
Jack Bentley: Okay, where are you going with it?
Sam Miller: I am dropping one bread crumb at a time to heighten the suspense. You know, like Hitchcock. You know, the way he tells you only what he wants you to know when he wants you to know it, to keep you on the edge of your seat? Only more horrifying, with lots of plot twists.

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Reflex

Boss 1×2

Sam Miller: This is chumpbait. You know what that is? ... Honestly, you look at something like this and you instantly just know, it's bullshit. It's made so the chumps will pick it up and put it out for other chumps to feed on. Like a chumpbait. And where'd they say it came from?
Reporter: A blog. An anonymous blog.

Sam Miller: Move, move, move. Never stop, never question. Feed the beast. Gotta keep their attention. Give-them-something-new bullshit. Truth be damned... I mean, we sit here making sure everything is vetted, checked, rechecked, checked on the recheck, and along comes Mr. Happy Shiny blog and puts out what-the-fuck-ever and it's everywhere. Where the fuck is journalism? Chumpbait!

Ben Zajac: Sorry.
Maggie Zajac: Quicker than I thought.

Mayor Tom Kane: Sometimes it's good to proclaim your independence. Otherwise, you're always just a foregone conclusion.

Kitty O'Neill: This is what you taught me. This is how things work. Wins accumulate on top of wins and form streaks, remember? It doesn't matter what the vote is about. Streaks give you capital. When you're winning, that's when you can do everything else, spend your capital on the other things that matter.

Kitty O'Neill: If he loses this, think of all the other things that are gonna fall by the wayside. Kane is the city. And everything we do that is good for the city comes from the fact that he has the power to do it. Do the right thing, Nick.

Mayor Tom Kane: Do you believe in change? Even if people can't, circumstances do.

Meredith Kane: I'll tell you what I believe. I believe that to preserve what we have, we made a choice, one that is completely outside the realm of such fluff as changing circumstances. We chose to fortify ourselves, against all my natural instincts, and distance ourselves from our daughter. I recall you being very clear to me about why this was necessary. So don't sit there and waver with whatever it is you have going on in your head. We chose. We committed. Emma's a liability. Was then, is now, to the life we have. Her behavior could not be tolerated. She had to be cut loose. That does not change. I cannot have that change.

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Boss 1×1

Dr. Ella Harris: It's called Lewy body. Abnormal microscopic amounts of protein depositing themselves in the nerve cells of your cerebral cortex and substantia nigra here and here, destroying them over time, atrophying the frontal and temporal lobes. It's rare. It's not Alzheimer's. It's not Parkinson's. But like them, degenerative progression is slow, irreversible and there is no known cure.
     First, your higher mental functions will deteriorate, orientation, intelligence, insight. Your speech will become unusual, nonsensical at times with unconscious repetition, loss of words. You'll experience increasingly severe visual hallucinations, paranoia, delusions. Depression is common, anxiety more so.
     Later, as the disease advances, you will see dystonic postures, muscle rigidity, tremors, loss of language, memory.
     Eventually, you'll not be able to carry out simple daily tasks. Your body movements reduce drastically with fluctuating levels of unconsciousness lasting days to weeks until death.
Mayor Tom Kane: How long?
Dr. Ella Harris: It's hard to say. Three, maybe five years. Could be more, could be less.

Mayor Tom Kane: Twenty thousand men used to work here, in this place, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of hogs and cattle each day. "Life, for all its cares and its terrors is no such great thing after all." Laborer or hog.
Dr. Ella Harris: Sinclair.
Mayor Tom Kane: Yes.

Mayor Tom Kane: He did it because he understood something basic about all people. They want to be led. They want their disputes settled. They want their treaties negotiated, their jobs dispensed, their mutinies punished. And they want their loyalties rewarded. To those who lead them to all they want, they give power. It's a covenant, unspoken and elemental.

Mayor Tom Kane: When a part fails, it needs to be fixed.

Ben Zajac: Am I supposed to just damage him or go for the whole thing?
Mayor Tom Kane: It's not a matter of degrees. It's not precision surgery. You go after him because it's time to take him out.

Ben Zajac: His numbers are high. There's only three weeks left until the primary.
Mayor Tom Kane: It's an eternity. Three days would be. Don't tell me you have to think about it because I know you don't.

Mayor Tom Kane: Smile.
Ben Zajac: Why?
Mayor Tom Kane: Sometimes it's necessary to let the other guy know you're coming.

Lalo Mata: You see, all sports, when they first come onto the scene, have idiotic clothing. That's 'cause they want to grab attention, credibility. They want to grow. But as they become more established, they become more austere.
Mata's Associate: What about ice dancing?
Lalo Mata: That is the exception. But the rule still holds. And you see, this is the same exact trajectory that ethnicities take when they first come to this country. At first they're all flash and dash. Hair greased, hot wheels, pimp clothing, pimp jewelry. But as they become more established, they become more austere in their tastes.
     Look at the Italians, the Irish, the Greeks, the Jews. Except the blacks. The blacks are the exception. They're like ice dancing. But for everyone else this is the truth.
     As time passes, they begin to understand the value of modesty, of group strength, of groups making collective decisions, of keeping your mouth shut and checking up the ranks.

Mayor Tom Kane: Good night, Stoney.
Ezra Stone: Boss.

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