- Raymond 'Red' Reddington: [after learning that Liz put aside personal money for a fund for the daughter of the cop that Tom murdered] Be careful, Lizzie. Because the truth of it is once you start down this road, there's no logical place to stop. You could see to her education, health insurance, housing. You can watch her. Or have her watched. Keep her safe. Try to ascertain her... hopes, dreams, desires. Pull strings, call in favors to discreetly smooth the path. And, for the first few years, it may work. You'll draw some measure of virtue from being her invisible benefactor. But, that won't last. It's all a fraud. That it's really not about her at all. That it's all about you. And you're just... going through the motions to salve your own guilt. But, all the money, all the time and effort, all the favors in the world cannot possibly equal what you took away from her. Everything else is... just a nice gesture.
- Tom Keen: The only thing that matters is that I killed that man. The guy walked on the wrong ship at the wrong time.
- Judge Renner: So you snapped his neck, just like that?
- Tom Keen: No. It took a few seconds.
- Tom Connolly: You perjured yourself for one of your team. I admit, I didn't expect that, but I sure as hell do respect it.
- Harold Cooper: Guess my principles aren't what they used to be. Neither are yours.
- Tom Connolly: That's where you're wrong, buddy. I never had any principles. That's why I'm on a rocket to the top.
- Judge Renner: Government secrecy, the idea that the federal government can act, surveil, detain, interrogate, and even kill American citizens with no oversight or accountability. No obligation to present the people with evidence that led to their actions, that, in my view, is the gravest threat to our national security. It erodes the very foundation of our great democracy. This is a system of checks and balances founded on separation of powers. The fact that any federal prosecutor who utters the magic words, who invokes "national security" can suppress cases, can quash subpoenas, can avoid grand juries, that offends me.