Sean: Who is John Wayne?
Frank: That's sad.

Targets don't shoot back.

Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.

Danny: You've got nothing to feel guilty about.
Frank: What makes you think I feel guilty?
Danny: Because you've got a hero from Ziggy's in that bag with my name on it.

I don't like pandering on my best day.

It's a hell of a lot easier to put yourself in harm's way than to ask others to do so. At least for me anyway.

Frank: Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean. Who is neither tarnished or afraid.
Henry: Raymond Chandler?
Frank: His definition of a hero.

We all die son, it's just a question of when.

Yeah, I'm like scrooge and the Grinch rolled into one.

Mayor

Frank: Happy families are alike. Unhappy families are unhappy in their own way.
Nicky: Who said that?
Frank: Other than me? Tolstoy.

I particularly like the part right here about exploring new avenues. Makes unemployment sound exciting.

This is exactly what I don't want to see when I open the paper. Some pedestrian's photo of one of my officers in his RNP texting.