No Compromises
"On my world we have learned that an inauguration is simply a signal to assassins that a new target has been set up on the firing range."
Londo

"Do you want to be the president?"
"I do."
"Then put your hand on the book and say 'I do'."
"I do."
"Fine. Done. Let's eat."
Sheridan is sworn in as the President by G'kar

The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
"You have that vacant look in your eyes that says, 'Hold my head into your ear, and you'll hear the sea.'"
Londo to Zack

"I don't believe this. What is it with this place? I mean, last week someone tries to assassinate Sheridan, and now someone tries to poison Londo. My God! What is wrong with you people? Don't you have anything else better to do? Why don't you get a hobby? Read a book or something!"
Vir to the people in Zocalo

"You couldn't sleep either."
"No. I heard about your... situation."
"I heard about yours. As Mr. Garibaldi would say, it's been one hell of a day."
"Yes, a hell of a day."
"And a hell of a year."
"A hell of a 5 years."
"A hell of a life."
"A... You win."
Vir and Lennier

"The Universe is an evil place, but at least it seems to have a sense of humor about the whole thing."
Londo

The Paragon of Animals
"You've misspelled this. There's no 'Y' in liberties."
"Oh, go away. Repress someone else."
Londo and G'Kar

A View from the Gallery
"He's a good man."
"Yep. A good man."
"I heard he was dead once."
"Yeah, well, nobody's perfect, Bo."
Bo and Mack about Sheridan

"The Universe hates me you know. I don't know why; I've never done anything to the Universe to... Well, alright. A few things, but after a while you'd think it would be enough. 'Yes, we've had our fun with Londo Mollari for now. Perhaps it is time to move on and find someone else to play with.'"
Londo

"You're supposed to be the head of covert intelligence. Right now I'm not seeing a hell of a lot of intelligence; covert, overt, or otherwise!"
Lochley to Garibaldi

"If I were launched on a lifepod and let's say shortly after the launch the equipment is accidentally smashed from the inside. What would happen to the pod?"
"It'd crash into Epsilon 3."
"Or explode. It could explode."
"Possibly. It wouldn't be good either way ma'am."
"I see... understand, that while I'm not a prophet, I can tell you that if I'm sent away and forced to watch everything I love and have fought for die before my eyes without even a chance to help, the lifepod would suffer just such terrible accident. Now, time being circular, if we know this will happen, then we may as well assume that it has already happened and the lifepod is not safe for me to enter."
Delenn, Bo and Mack discuss why Delenn cannot leave Babylon 5 in the middle of a battle

Learning Curve
"I would hardly call sitting and thinking as a challenge."
"True, you have developed the sitting part down to an art, so I suppose there is hope. As for thinking... oh, well... let's leave that to the advanced classes."
Rastenn and Sech Turval

Strange Relations
"What the hell is your problem?"
"For starters, I don't know you, therefore I don't trust you."
"The world's full of people you don't know."
"I worry about that all the time."
Lochley and Garibaldi

Day of the Dead
"This is a moment to tell your children about, Captain."
"I'll get on having some."
"What?"
"I said I have an appointment with the Brakiri ambassador. I'm on my way."
Sheridan and Lochley about Rebo and Zooty's visit

"You know, the reports of my death, they weren't even exaggerated a little bit."
Dodger comes back from the dead

"I'm prophetic, not infallible."
Morden

"[...] and Mr. Garibaldi wants to blame the telepaths. Of course, these days he is on look for ground to blame them for everything from sun spots to hair loss."
Lochley

In the Kingdom of the Blind
"It's bad luck to die on empty stomach."
G'Kar

Phoenix Rising
"Let me ask you a question, Mr. Garibaldi. Purely philosophical. On a scale from one to ten... how stupid do you think I am, anyway?"
Bester

The Ragged Edge
"I didn't know being president was fifty per cent panic and fifty per cent paperwork."
Sheridan

"Well, there you have the key to your popularity - your absence. Go away for a month and they bow. Go away for six months and they will tear the place apart when you come back. Perhaps you should go away and never come back again - then your popularity would be so overwhelming it would blacken out the stars. I have always said this about you - nothing improves your company like the lack of it. The less they see of you, the more they like you. Perhaps you could make some from this. Ten credits for you not to be there for an hour; a hundread credits for you not to be there for the day; and for to not to be there for rest of your life... well, they could never afford it."
Londo to G'kar

The Corps Is Mother, the Corps is Father
"So what is it this time, Mr. Bester? Hunting out freedom-fighters, pulling wings off flies, annexing Sudetenland?"
Zack

Meditations on the Abyss
"Vir! You are not biologically equipped to handle fast food."
"I know, I know, but it... it tastes so great going down. Coming up again it's not so terrific, but..."
Londo and Vir

Movements of Fire and Shadow
"Something's bothering you. What is it?"
"I need to ask you to do something I don't want to ask you to do."
"If it's about me wearing those little... I appreciate the gift and I didn't say I wouldn't wear them, I just said that for me, from a Minbari perspective, I thought that it looked silly."
"No, it's not anything to do with that."
"[Sighs] Business then?"
Delenn and Sheridan

The Fall of Centauri Prime
"I would be dead if not for you. You risked your life to save mine."
"You would have done the same."
"Yes, but I'm a better person."
G'Kar and Londo

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