Mike: Listen to me. What do they need in here to make things right?
Bunny: Cheapskate's gotta get knocked off. My cousin will run point when I get out.
Mike: Yeah. What do you need from me?
Bunny: Backs turned, five o'clock tomorrow.

Mike: Nobody touches fuckin' Bunny. OK, I want you to make it your personal fuckin' mission.
Carney: He is the biggest swingin' dick on this yard, Mike.
Mike: He's an ally who made good on his end, OK? So whatever the fuck happens to him now happens to you. Understand? He gets hurt; you're gonna get hurt. He bleeds; you bleed.

Mike: Jesus fuckin' Christ, Bunny. Looks like the plan's workin' out.
Bunny: I got no humor, Mike. Not a fuckin' lick.

Joseph: What are you looking for, Mike?
Mike: I'm looking for a lot of things, Joseph, but let's just keep that shit for another day, whaddya say?

Mike, when whore talks to feds, what do you think happens?

Joseph

Problems don't get bigger than the hooker in our mother's living room, Mike.

Kyle

Everyone in this mother fucker's about to be a victim. You all show you, you mother fucker's gonna be victims, too.

Gang Banger

Welcome to the national news.

Ian

Evelyn: You want me to arrest the leaders of the four worst prison gangs so they can reinstate a leadership structure inside the prison?
Mike: Exactly.
Evelyn: Do you have any idea how fucking insane that sounds, Mike?
Mike: You, more than anybody, know that the inside runs the outside, and nobody is running the inside.

The consequence of a riot is dismantling the illusion that prison is controlled by the guards. The consequence of putting down the riot is dismantling the leadership structure within the inmates. All that remains is chaos until a new leadership structure is created, and when there are no leaders inside, there are no leaders outside. All gangs are from prison because that's where all gangsters end up. And so is our new reality, and that reality is chaos.

Mike

Ian: He's gonna kill somebody.
Miriam: Nah, your gang will kill him first.

This is a disaster, Evelyn. Everything else is fuckin' shrapnel.

Mike

Mayor of Kingstown Quotes

The consequence of a riot is dismantling the illusion that prison is controlled by the guards. The consequence of putting down the riot is dismantling the leadership structure within the inmates. All that remains is chaos until a new leadership structure is created, and when there are no leaders inside, there are no leaders outside. All gangs are from prison because that's where all gangsters end up. And so is our new reality, and that reality is chaos.

Mike

My father used to say, I can't wait to get old, for my mind to soften, and my memories to rot away. The hardest thing to do is forget, forget the scars that life gives you, forget the scars you gave others. The challenge, then, is hiding a few memories worth keeping from your dying mind. He told me to keep a journal and only write down the good things. Then, when the bad things fade away, you can read about the happy life you had. But minds don't forget so easy, and the horror that we witness and endure takes root. Only madness and dementia can remove it.

Mike