Bolts Quotes

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It`s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

To nourish children and raise then against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

I have big dreams. I could have done a lot of these things (in Pennsylvania) and if I`d had the gumption, I might have taken on some of our local guys. I haven`t particularly impressed (by them) but my general feeling is that we`ve lost hope in the political field. Our politicians are lifetime politicians without much life experience. They talk the talk but their kids aren`t fighting in this war. Their families aren`t suffering poverty. They don`t know what they`re doing anymore. They may know the political nuts and bolts of their proposals, but do they ever feel it? No. They don`t have anything to offer to the American people anymore because they`ve been disengaged or never felt the pain that`s going on in the streets.

The guys we were stealing from in The Wire are the Greeks. In our heads we`re writing a Greek tragedy, but instead of the gods being petulant and jealous Olympians hurling lightning bolts down at our protagonists, it`s the Postmodern institutions that are the gods. And they are gods. And no one is bigger.

Most people don`t know who Ken Mehlman is. He`s the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he`s doing that Howard Dean isn`t doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.

I`m tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

In a nutshell, offensively we`re struggling. The nuts and bolts of what`s going on - that`s it. We`re struggling.