Teacher: I hope that someday policing will become less polarizing and the policeman can take their place among the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker. That is the kind of society I want ot live in.
Morales: You tell my son I was bumped for the candlestick maker. And when he gets home, I'll tell him the truth.

ADA: Inspector Hayward, I didn't expect to see you at the prisoner loading dock.
Regina: I didn't expect to see you here either. We're both here for the same reason. The difference is, I'm allowed to be here. You're not.

Regina: She'll probably do 18 months.
Suarez: Between the burden she has to carry and her sons, she's doing life.

You're saying the man I was named after, the man who raised me, was not my father?

Tyrell

Woman: I think of myself as a storyteller.
Killian: I thought you ran restaurants.

Sean: I am entering a new phase of my life.
Regina: What does that mean?
Sean: I got a transfer. No more undercover work. From now on I'm going to be working at the New York office of the FBI.

I've never known you to drop by unannounced, Dad. In fact, I've never known you to drop by at all.

Regina

Morales: I saw you got a big write-up in the New York Times.
Javier: You'd think that'd be a good thing.
Morales: Good for business.
Javier: Lines out the door, turning over tables four or five times a night, people taking pictures of their food... it isn't how it used to be.

Tyrell used to be afraid of falling. He'd say when you get to be a certain age you have to stay upright because if you fall, you break something and it's all downhill from there. I didn't expect him to ever fall down and die.

Mrs. Booker

Yenko: You are a material witness. That means we can detain you if we want.
Tonya: I don't buy that when I hear it from Ice-T on Law & Order and I don't buy it from you either.

Yenko: There are some people who would take credit for others' work, but I'm surprised he [Suarez] is one of them.
Regina: Maybe it's time we stopped being surprised.

Allison: Since Raymond fired me, I have considered working with a candidate for Congress, a candidate for mayor, and a presidential candidate in the Czech Republic.
Suarez: That's what happens when you make yourself indispensable.

East New York Quotes

Rookie: Who's that guy?
Supervisor: He shows up wherever there's cameras.

Salon Worker: Big day for you, huh? You the boss now.
Hayward: I'm A boss. There are lots of bosses. I have a boss.