1- Orrin Bach : You don’t have to outswim the shark. You just have to outswim the guy you’re scuba diving with.
2- Chuck Rhoades : The best way to bond with someone isn’t doing a favor, it’s asking for one.
3- Mike “Wags” Wagner: You can’t have it appear you’re illegally meddling, especially when you’re illegally meddling.
4- Bobby “Axe” Axelrod : When I walk out that door today, we are friends for life or you don’t exist to me ever again.
5- Mike “Wags” Wagner: Billy Bean never won a world-series.
6- Orrin Bach : We’re almost home. Don’t let your paranoia make you take unnecessary risks.
7- Taylor Mason : I think you’re trying to bully me, and a bully is devastated when you try to stand up to him.
8- Chuck Rhoades : Self-righteousness is an indulgence I cannot afford.
9- Chuck Rhoades : As long as justice is served, credit doesn’t matter.
10- Wendy Rhoades : Your son is the man you made him. Whatever greatness and whatever darkness is in him came from you.
11- Chuck Rhoades : You know the only enemy more dangerous than a man with unlimited resources is one with nothing to lose. And that is what you are looking at right here.
12- Bobby “Axe” Axelrod : Nobody leaves here until you hand me an idea that I can shock the world with in a few days time!
13- Bobby “Axe” Axelrod : When I pull a deal off the table, I leave Nagasaki behind.
14- Wendy Rhoades : Foolishness is right next door to strength.
15- Taylor Mason : Corrections are in order. There’s a way to make this work, and that way is hard, but necessary. As Taleb says, ‘become antifragile, or die.’
16- Chuck Rhoades : What we do has consequences, intended or unintended. The decisions we make, The actions we bring—have weight.
17- Taylor Mason : The doctor’s oath: do no harm. Three words, and yet — almost impossible to put into practice.
18- Chuck Rhoades : They may be cheering now, but believe me, they are dying to boo.
19- Taylor Mason : We need to be thinking about tomorrow. So we keep going.
20- Mike “Wags” Wagner : That reminds me of a prayer I said every night as a kid: I pray the Lord my soul to keep, and if I die before I wake, I pray that all my toys should break. So my fucking brother and sister can’t play with ’em.
21- Chuck Rhoades : Guarantee is a word that amateurs use in politics.
22- Chuck Rhoades : Don’t serve rabbit food to an elephant and ask if he’s full.
23- Wendy Rhoades : Rich guys head to the city when their marriages fall apart for the same reason birds fly south instead of freezing their asses off.
24- Taylor Mason : I like nightmares. When I wake up, they leave me deeply valuing my reality.
25- Chuck Rhoades : No one quits while they’re ahead. This isn’t France. It’s America.
26– Wendy Rhoades : Impose your will on him until he does what he needs to and repays the debt.
27- Chuck Rhoades : Calculation is not something to be scoffed at. It’s a tool. A tactic. And I use it proudly and often.
28- Taylor Mason : Legal trouble does not mean you can’t fulfill your teleological purpose.
29- Mike “Wags” Wagner : The fact that you can’t fully understand that doesn’t mean he’s wrong. It just means you haven’t gone beyond your own limits.
30- Chuck Rhoades : You need me, because I am willing to stare into the abyss beyond conventional morality and do what needs to be done.
31- Chuck Rhoades : Every man is a junkie for something.
32- Bryan Connerty : Once you get going prosecuting people who don’t deserve it, it gets hard to stop.
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