- Henry Reagan: Good cops are made by the world they police. I was the kind of cop I needed to be in my time. So was your dad. So was Danny. Now your dad runs the city and Danny's adapting to the changes. And I'm a dinosaur.Listen to your sergeant.Become your own kind of good cop.
- Jamie Reagan: Whoa, stop the car.
- Sgt. Anthony Renzulli: What?
- Jamie Reagan: Something not right about this guy.
- Sgt. Anthony Renzulli: I'm shocked, Reagan. Shocked, a Harvard guy like you is mocking the vertically-challenged.
- Jamie Reagan: Shouldn't we be doing something?
- Sgt. Anthony Renzulli: We are.
- Jamie Reagan: Besides contributing to your high cholesterol? Why don't we canvas those electronics stores? You know, maybe that stickup guy hits again.
- Sgt. Anthony Renzulli: Let me tell you something. Lots of cops burn themselves out chasing down every half-assed lead like it's the French Connection. But never learning the secret to being a good cop.
- Jamie Reagan: Is that extra mayo?
- Sgt. Anthony Renzulli: Hey, I make the jokes around here, Rookie.
- Jamie Reagan: Alright.
- Sgt. Anthony Renzulli: I'm talking about the art of doing nothing.
- Jamie Reagan: It's amazing you don't have your own command by now
- Sgt. Anthony Renzulli: I'm serious. N.Y.P.D. will spend millions of dollars of hours and manpower setting up stings and take downs, but if they just taught more cops the art of observing...
- Jamie Reagan: Of what? Nannies, skateboarders?
- Sgt. Anthony Renzulli: We'll, for instance, that yupster over there with the mandals, what do you think he's doing?
- Jamie Reagan: He's reading the newspaper?
- Sgt. Anthony Renzulli: No. That's what he wants his wife to think he' doing. What he's really doing is checking out those blondes doing Tai-chi.
- Jamie Reagan: That's great, we can arrest him for having impure thoughts.
- Sgt. Anthony Renzulli: Ok, wise ass.