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Veronica: [to her gang] Now the best thing we have going for us, is being who we are.
Alice: Why ?
Veronica: Because no-one thinks we have the balls to pull this off.
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Jack Mulligan: What I've learned from men like my father and your husband is that you reap what you sow.
Veronica: Let's hope so.
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Fuller: [on Harry] I always said he should burn in hell. But Chicago will do.
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[last lines]
Veronica: Alice! How you been?
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Jack Mulligan: I'll tell you exactly why I fired your campaign manager: he told me we would get the endorsement of Wheeler, and now, the good reverend has decided to sit this one out. He doesn't get to do that.
Tom Mulligan: Oh... let me get this straight. You fire Hillsman. He's been working with our family for 30 years. So you just put a bullet in him, y'know, when the polls drop to, what - three percent? Why? Why?
Jack Mulligan: I got a new guy coming on. Black guy. British.
Tom Mulligan: Black guy? Really? A black guy?
Siobhan: Gavin Cunningham.
Tom Mulligan: What?
Siobhan: Yeah - Gavin Cunningham.
Tom Mulligan: [Yelling] Well, fuck me, and fuck him, and fuck you, and fuck the fuckin' horse you came in on, you fuckin' asshole! What a fuckin' asshole you are!
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Jamal Manning: This is my brother.
Jatemme Manning: Jatemme.
Jack Mulligan: Love you too.
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Veronica: I'm not involved in Harry's business. I work for the teacher's union.
Jamal Manning: I understand. Criminals are like cops. They don't bring their shit home.
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Veronica: [gives Alice money] This is for the guns.
Alice: Guns?
Veronica: Three Gloms. Ammo too. No more than 2000 dollars.
Alice: Me? From where?
Veronica: [coyly] It's America.
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Alice: [to Veronica] I'm done being treated like shit. Not again. Not by you, not by anyone.
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Linda: If this thing goes wrong, I just want my kids to know that I didn't sit there and take it. I did something.
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Veronica: We have a lot of work to do, crying is not on the list.
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Reverend Wheeler: So, what has happened to the world? That normal now passes as excellence? When did we lower our standards? There seems to be no expectation to go above and beyond what one might know, or might want to know. It seems people are blissful in their own ignorance. How far have we fallen? Indeed, how far have we fallen? We are living in an environment where people are blind. What you don't see, you don't know. Out of sight, out of mind. So now, ignorance is the new normal! In fact, ignorance is the new excellence! The less you know, the more seemingly you gain. Not to care is deemed to be smart. When you subtract love from any equation, from any situation, from any location, the result is always hurt, and pain, on all sides. That is why we need to bring love back into the equation. Love, in Jesus' words: "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." So he can hear you all now, say it with me: "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." Even when it ain't easy! Even when you been done wrong! And this world's got you down on your knees! Love thy neighbour as thyself! Alright, amen.
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Jack Mulligan: Have you ever slept with a black guy?
Siobhan: Sorry?
Jack Mulligan: You heard me, have you ever slept with a black guy?
Siobhan: What does that have to do with Jamal? Or anyth...
Jack Mulligan: Just answer the fucking question.
Siobhan: We're in a situation where you could lose everything. You've got the IGs and the feds breathing down your neck, you got Jamal Manning climbing in the polls and all you're concerned about is if your dick is bigger than his?
Jack Mulligan: Well what are we fighting for? This? I mean do you know how many shootings happened in this city last weekend alone? Thirty four! These people are killing each other! This is not where I want to raise my children. What are we fighting for, exactly! I feel suffocated. I'm a Mulligan, I'm my mother's son, God rest her soul. The shit she had to put up with from my father!
Siobhan: I'm putting up with it too, Jack. That's what adults do.
Jack Mulligan: I never wanted to be in this fucking business. That what this is. It's a fucking business! Christ, I just wanna be free of this shit. Can't take it anymore.
Siobhan: Wake the fuck up, Jack. You are not going to pussy out now. What are you going to do, work in a bank? Take the train downtown, punch a clock? This is your life. This is our life, it's what we do. Everyone has a fucking sob story, most of them better than yours, so if the idea is to be mayor one day, you better man the fuck up!
Jack Mulligan: Jesus... Dollar signs of empty promises. Everyone who thinks different are fooling themselves. That's the God's honest truth.
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Harry Rawlings: Why couldn't you just sell the book to Jamal and leave it at that? Ronnie, you're not supposed to be here.
Veronica: You left me alone, you evil bastard. You wanted to start a new life with your son and your new white happy family.
Harry Rawlings: I couldn't save him, Ronnie! I couldn't save us! I had to save me! Me!
Veronica: You're a fucking coward!
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