I have a great affinity for virtuosos, but it seems that your instrument is deception, thievery.

Picard

The people who dislike me are gamblers, low-level gangsters, the fathers of daughters everywhere. Not vigilante bounty hunters willing to pick a fight with the Federation.

Jack

Picard: We both know Beverly would never permit this.
Jack: Who do you think taught me all this? When she’s not behind me, kicking my ass, she’s right beside me. Equal partners, trying to do some good in a goodless imperfect universe.

Ask yourself, is there anybody you know who’s still the person you knew? Or have you planted roots in your vineyard while everybody else moved on?

Jack

Shaw: This is not a diplomatic issue, Picard. They have already engaged us.
Picard: Reestablish coms. We may be able to bring her down simply by standing up!

It’s been centuries since timepieces [relied] on the mechanics of gears, and yet that persistent sound you hear is the gentle tick-tock of passing seconds.

Vadic

I thought you might care to know the name of my particular vessel. The Shrike. It’s an Earth creature, a small carrion bird, one that doesn’t attack in anger or malice, one that isn’t made frantic by hunger but rather kills surgically, carefully.

Vadic

With each ticking moment, I will take another piece of you. I’ll peck and I’ll jab. Everything that makes you you. Every system that makes your ship your ship. Until there’s nothing left but the choice to have given me what you could’ve given me now. But certainly, take your time.

Vadic

Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Episode 2 Quotes

Jack: Look, we all know the warlords down there engineered the fever in order to clear the free zone from refugees before the others could claim it. I give half to one warlord, half to another. Cut you in for, say, twenty-five?
Ranger: Thirty-five
Jack: Thirty percent of the take. Then pew pew pew … it’s bad guys shooting bad guys and we help refugees by curing a pandemic. Oh, mon ami, we’re basically saints.

Fenris Ranger: As a medical expert, I assume you are aware of the protocols. Which you are currently in violation of at least… oh, twenty-seven, give or take.
Jack: Protocols which will have the desired effect of killing the disease by killing everybody who carries it.