- Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: OK, on that burner? I called Trac, gave them the serial number. Trac Corporation told me they sent it to Northland, a purchasing corporation. Northland tells me they sent it to their distribution center in Hagerstown. Hagerstown tells me they sent it to Buddy's Mondo Mart at 1440 Propane Road, Falls Church, Va. That's where it went out into the street.
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- Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: What?
- Lt. Cedric Daniels: Did Buddy have them on display to the left or the right of the cash register?
- Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: How would I know that?
- State Sen. R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: Look, it takes money to make money, String. Otherwise every pauper would be a king.
- Russell 'Stringer' Bell: And I'm sayin', I'm ready to run now.
- State Sen. R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: Three years. Crawl, walk, and then run.
- State Sen. R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: I'm going to bring you along, String, but it ain't going to be an overnight thing. We spend this year dealing with the city, the next doing business with the state. However, year three, then we go for the gold. Then we go federal. Then we see the man with his hand on the faucet.
- Russell 'Stringer' Bell: What faucet?
- State Sen. R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: The hood faucet. The money faucet.
- Deacon: No offense, but you're like the blind man and the elephant. It's a lot bigger than what you got your hand on, you just can't see it.
- Maj. Howard 'Bunny' Colvin: See what?
- Deacon: A great village of pain, and you're the mayor. Where's your drinking water? Where's your toilets? Your heat, your electricity? Where's the needle truck? The condom distribution? The drug treatment intake? Half these people are dyin' on their feet, and the other half's gonna catch what's killin' them.
- Maj. Howard 'Bunny' Colvin: Look, they ain't no worse off when they was all over the map. Now they just in one place, is all.
- Deacon: And that place is hell.
- Off. Anthony Colicchio: You know what this is? It's moral midgetry. Turn the fuckin' world upside down, treat these braindead corner yo's like princelings.
- Sgt. Ellis Carver: You see how clean the corners are? In every sector, street traffic is half what it was.
- Off. Anthony Colicchio: Fuck that. It's wrong, and it's wrong.
- Theresa D'Agostino: Do you think politics is only about winning the argument? That whoever has the right fact at the right moment wins? Clinton had facts. Kennedy had facts, yeah. But Reagan? He couldn't have summoned a fact if his life depended on it.