- Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart: Wanna know what kills more police than bullets and liquor? Boredom. They just can't handle that shit. You keep it boring, String. You keep it dead fucking boring.
- Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: [types in "Peanut" in database] 89? And that's just the ones with Westside addresses.
- Det. Vernon Holley: Man, you got to narrow that shit down. Find some way to work with all them "Peanuts."
- Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Motherfucker, do I look like George Washington Carver?
- Stringer Bell: That's good. That's like a 40-degree day. Ain't nobody got nothing to say about a 40-degree day. Fifty. Bring a smile to your face. Sixty, shit, niggas is damn near barbecuing on that motherfucker. Go down to 20, niggas get their bitch on. Get their blood complaining. But forty? Nobody give a fuck about 40. Nobody remember 40, and y'all niggas is giving me way too many 40-degree days! What the fuck?
- Sapper: [a few minutes later when Stringer is done talking] We on that shit like a Forty Degree Day!
- Acting Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: I don't care how many years you have on this job. If the felony rate doesn't fall, *you* most certainly will. If the Gods are fucking you, you find a way to fuck them back. It's Baltimore, gentlemen. The gods will not save you.
- Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: So what do you think?
- Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: I think this is a tragic motherfucking miscarriage of justice. I think it deserves a special grand jury, and if not, the President should appoint an independent prosecutor. Oh, no no, no no, actually, I think Kofi Bryant and the United fucking Nations should get involved.
- Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: So that's the cop shooter?
- Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Yeah, not much to it. But he did that job on the Dozerman kid last week. Gave it up on a full statement.
- Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Before or after you knocked the shit out of him?
- Acting Commissioner Ervin H. Burrell: If the Gods are fucking you, you find a way to fuck them back. It's Baltimore, gentlemen, the Gods will not save you.