The Best Warden Leo Glynn Quotes

[Kirk has been implicated in Burns' murder]
Timmy: It's Hoyt's word against mine. He killed Jim Burns, he bricked Cloutier in a wall.
Timmy: [referring to Mukada] This is all some weird revenge thing on *his* part. I am INNOCENT!
Father: You LIAR!
[attacks Kirk but is restrained]
Warden: [to the guards] Take Kirk back to Unit B!
Father: You will BURN, KIRK!
Timmy: [snarkily] NO! *You're* the one who will BURN!

Sister: Rape is rape, Leo.
Warden: I don't agree. Here, rape has a... a leveling effect.

[Kirk has been accused of the arson at Mukada's church]
Timmy: Clarence Seroy is a lying sack of shit!
Warden: That's funny. You said the exact same thing about Jaz Hoyt.
Timmy: I am INNOCENT!
Warden: NO! You're a guilty little prick who's finally going to take responsibility for the shit storms you created!
Timmy: You've got no proof. It's still their word against mine.
Warden: Ray Mukada is a friend of mine. He's lying in a hospital bed and that's pissing me off. Pissing me off ROYAL!

Tim: [McManus discovers that a CO Karl Metzger is a member of the Aryan Brotherhood] So before Metzger came to town, he lived in Montana where he was part of the White Supremacy Warriors.
Sister: You sure of this, Tim?
Tim: I got a friend who works in the FBI who verified it.
Warden: Even so, you can't fire a man for what he did 15 years ago. I need proof that he's in cahoots with Vern Schillinger, that he's responsible for what happened to Busmalis, Beecher, and the others.
Tim: Nobody will testify against Metzger.
Warden: Well, the union's not gonna let us do anything without evidence. He's also very popular with the other CO's. I don't need any more morale problems.
Tim: So we let him stay on board till maybe he kills somebody?
Warden: I'm afraid, we have no choice.
Tim: Even though he only thinks of you as a Nigger?
Warden: What did you say?
Tim: A Nigger.
Warden: If you're trying to piss me off, you're succeeding. I don't want Metzger in this building one minute longer than you do. But if I'm going to take him down, I'm gonna need ammunition.

Sister: I want to find the three men who raped Peter Schibetta.
Warden: Why?
Sister: Why, Leo? Why?
Warden: Look, we're doing everything we can to keep the number of reported rapes down.
Sister: Reported? Listen to you, your own daughter was raped.
Warden: Well... this is different. This is Oz.
Sister: Rape is rape, Leo.
Warden: I don't agree. Here, rape has a leveling effect. Peter Schibetta, from the day he arrived, wanted to be a tough guy, wanted to follow in his father's footsteps, running things, hurting people. Well, he got stopped by Adebisi, and now he got stopped again.
Sister: What's going on? Do you have something personal against Schibetta?
Warden: No, no, simply survival of the fittest, as natural and basic as Darwin.
Sister: You and I have disagreed about a lot of things over the years, but this is...
Warden: Peter Marie...
Sister: "... a leveling effect."? You want rape to do your job?

Warden: Said is representing Vern Schillinger?
Tim: Didn't Nostradamus predict this? Doesn't this mean we're two steps closer to the end of the fucking world?

Warden: You wanted to see me.
Chris: I gotta get out of this place.
Warden: There's a reason you're in protective custody. We want you to live long enough to testify against Schillinger.
Chris: Yeah, Warden I stay in here I die of boredom.
Warden: You wanted magazines, I sent magazines.
Chris: How many times a day can a guy jerk off?
Warden: I don't know, depends on the guy.
Chris: I gotta go back to Em City. I ain't worried about Schillinger. I'll take care of myself. I want that fuck to see I'm not punking out.

Leo: Look, whatever relationship we may had in the past, it's over, you're my prisoner now!
Mayor: That simple huh... do you actually think I killed those little girls?
Leo: You're found guilty!
Mayor: As a black man... you gotta know that don't mean dick!

Governor: [at a live press conference, announcing the pardon of Kareem Said] The celebration of Ramadan is at the center of Islamic worship. Therefore, I'm pleased, in the grand tradition of this holy time, to bestow clemency on a prisoner. Kareem Said has been an outspoken critic of our administration, but political differences aside, he has been an outstanding member of the prison population. Even after suffering a heart attack last year, he's continued to work with prisoners of every race and color, especially the young, to instruct them and guide them to better lives. So I hereby grant Kareem Said a full pardon and I wish him well in his new life.
Kareem: [Said walks out in front of the microphones and cameras to shake Devlin's hand] Finally, we meet face-to-face.
Reporter: Mr. Said! How do you feel?
Kareem: How do I feel? I feel joyless. My brothers remain behind. Imprisoned, suppressed. I don't just mean my Muslim brothers, I mean every single man that will sleep in here tonight, that was cut off from everything that he loves. Cut off from his own self. You know, as the word went around that the governor was gonna give somebody clemency, I saw a rift develop as each inmate wished himself to be the chosen one. The longing to be free became as palpable as the food that we eat. But it is a meal that I am being served right now. And I am Muslim. And Allah does not allow me to swallow certain things. Allah does not allow me to take scraps from the hands from a man such as this. A man who is corrupt and immoral. A man who denigrates the gift of clemency just as he violates the principles of justice. A man that gave the order that caused the death of eight people. And so, Governor Devlin, because even the cost of freedom can be too high, I *refuse* your pardon!
[the reporters go wild asking questions]
Warden: Officer, take him back inside.
[a CO takes Said back to Emerald City]
Governor: [humiliated, furious, muttering] Cocksucker.

Augustus: [In Em City] Oz.
Tim: [In his office] Oz.
Tobias: [In the infirmary] Oz.
Vern: [In his Gen. Pop. cell] Oz.
Sister: [In the Gen. Pop. section] Oz.
Ryan: [In the guard booth of Em City] Oz.
Warden: [in front of fellow officers] Oz.
Miguel: [In Solitary] Oz.

Father: [At the funeral of an African American CO Joseph Howard] Eternal rest grant unto him, Oh Lord, and let perpetual light shine down upon him. And now, Tim McManus would like to say a few words. Tim.
Tim: Joe loved to bet on the horses, and so, in honor of him, I would like to...
[singing]
Tim: Camp town races sing this song, doo-dah, doo-dah, Camp town racetrack's five miles long Oh, the doo-dah day.
[Blacks in Audience including Glynn begin to look at McManus with disgust]
Tim: Gonna run all night, Gonna run all day. Bet my money on a bobtail nag, Somebody bet on the bay.
Warden: [a scene later in the Warden's office] Come in.
Sister: Leo, we want to talk about Tim.
Warden: I have had all the discussion about Tim McManus I'm gonna have.
Sister: He's clearly in distress.
Warden: Yes.
Dr. Gloria Nathan: He needs help.
Warden: That's what I told him.
Sister: So, you've seen him?
Warden: He just left.
Dr. Gloria Nathan: We've been looking everywhere.
Warden: He just left.
Dr. Gloria Nathan: Well, where'd he go?
Warden: I have no idea.
Sister: Alright, we'll try him at home tonight.
Dr. Gloria Nathan: If not, we'll just see him here tomorrow.
Sister: Right.
Warden: I don't think so.
Dr. Gloria Nathan: Why not?
Warden: I just fired him. Good night.