You start letting the court of public opinion hold sway you're pretty much telling justice to take a hike.

You're three times as likely to die from a stabbing as you are a gun shot.

You know, my granddaughter's growing up. She's almost an adult so I'm just gonna butt out.

It's not an order it's a valuable suggestion or I could suggest it right over your head.

Henry: My opinion is valid and valuable.
Frank: I didn't say it wasn't.
Henry: In effect, you did.

I am not going to put the other 35,000 men and women of this department through the ringer for one cop's crusade.

Effort does not guarantee outcome.

Some mistakes time erases and some it does not.

Not nice is not grounds for a justifiable homicide.

I can tell you what the Irish in me truly dreads, ultimatums delivered in British accents.

It's hard to do the right thing when you don't know what the right thing to do is.

Garrett: You'll play nice?
Frank: Right up until nice doesn't work.