The Best Lieutenant Schrank Quotes

Lieutenant: We're outnumbered, boys. Thousands more are on their way, and once they're here, they pop out kids like crazy. Am I right?

Lieutenant: What's a gang without its terrain, its turf? You're a month or two away from finding out, one step ahead of the wrecking ball. And in this uncertain world, the only thing you can count on is *me*. I'm here to keep the civil peace until the last building falls. And if you boys make trouble on my turf, Riff, hand to heart, you're headed to an upstate prison cell for a very long time. By the time you get out, this will be a shiny new neighbourhood of rich people in beautiful apartments with Puerto Rican doormen that chase trash like you away.
[starts to leave]
Riff: Wait! I got a question for you, Lieutenant. How tall did you used to be before you, you know, "schrank"?
Lieutenant: Come on, Sergeant, ride with me.
Officer: Long as I know you, Riff, you ain't had the sense, God gave a pigeon.

Lieutenant: Most of the white guys who grew up in this slum climbed their way out of it. Irish, Italian, Jews: nowadays their descendants live in nice houses and drive nice cars and date nice girls you'd want to marry. Your dads or your granddads stayed put, drinking and knocking up some local piece who gave birth to you: The last of the Can't-Make-It Caucasians.

Lieutenant: [to the police] It's happening tonight. That's all we know. The morning papers filled with stories about dead kids? Not on my watch. Every block of Lincoln Square, every inch of San Juan Hill.
[Krupke walks up to Schrank]
Lieutenant: [to Krupke] I want the West Side locked down.

Lieutenant: Evict yourself off my crime scene, Bernardo.