- Roland 'Prezbo' Pryzbylewski: I don't get it. All this so we score higher on the state tests? If we're teaching the kids the test questions, what is it assessing in them?
- Grace Sampson: Nothing. It assesses us. The test scores go up, they can say the schools are improving. The scores stay down, they can't.
- Roland 'Prezbo' Pryzbylewski: Juking the stats.
- Grace Sampson: Excuse me?
- Roland 'Prezbo' Pryzbylewski: Making robberies into larcenies. Making rapes disappear. You juke the stats, and majors become colonels. I've been here before.
- Grace Sampson: Wherever you go, there you are.
- Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: So now you come over East Side and expect me to hide you. Why is it that every Baltimore nigger think that running the fuck away means crossing downtown? Shit, you should be in New York or Philly or some shit.
- Dep. Comm. for Operations William A. Rawls: Mr Mayor, about Ervin, if you don't mind me asking, why keep him as a puppet commissioner when you can just fire the guy?
- Norman Wilson: [Carcetti and Norman look at each other] We mind you asking.