- Odo: You're not...!
- Major Kira: Leaving? I really don't have much choice, do I?
- Odo: You're not just leaving, Major, you're surrendering.
- Major Kira: You break the rules, you pay.
- Odo: Wait a minute, I wanna be sure I heard that correctly. Because it doesn't sound like the Kira Nerys who has made a career out of breaking the rules.
- Major Kira: Well, I guess I broke one too many.
- Odo: [incensed] Major, you've been breaking one too many for fourteen and a half years! Cardassian rules, Bajoran rules, Federation rules, they're all meaningless to you. Because you have a personal code, that's always mattered more. And I'm sorry to say, you're in slim company.
- Major Kira: [softly] I'll miss you too, Odo.
- Commander Sisko: If you need any other help...
- Li Nalas: Help? I can't even sneeze without three people handing me handkerchiefs.
- [after Quark informs Odo who is supplying The Circle with weapons, but refuses to try and find out more]
- Odo: Quark, I hate to do this, but I guess I'll have to...
- Quark: That's not fair!
- Odo: I haven't done anything yet.
- Quark: Whatever you're going to do, it's not fair!
- Odo: You're a deputy.
- Quark: It's not - what?
- Odo: You're a deputy. I want you to find out where the weapons are going on Bajor. Meanwhile, I'm going to find out exactly where they're coming from.
- Quark: You and me, a team?
- Odo: That's right.
- [Quark bursts out laughing, bowing over the chair in hysterics, then sobers]
- Quark: Uh, goodbye.
- Odo: Either that or I'm putting you in a cell.
- Quark: *That's* not fair. On what charge?
- Odo: Impeding an investigation. Unless you want to reveal the identities of the people you've been talking to.
- Quark: You know I can't do that.
- Odo: It's your choice. You're a deputy or you're a prisoner.
- Quark: [with fake enthusiasm] I'm a deputy.
- Doctor Bashir: [to Kira] I came to give you my best.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Well, that's rather dull.
- Doctor Bashir: I beg your pardon?
- Major Kira: Dull is a polite word for it.
- Odo: Doctor, if you were Kira, wouldn't you at least be complaining to Commander Sisko?
- Doctor Bashir: Look, I just wanted to wish you good luck.
- Major Kira: Thank you, Doctor!
- Doctor Bashir: Complaining, about what?
- Odo: Never mind, Doctor. If she doesn't care, why should we?
- Doctor Bashir: Have they given you any reason yet?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Did they give you any alternative?
- Major Kira: I do care. - No, they haven't. - No, they didn't. I... I really ought to finish packing!
- Odo: Idiotic bureaucracy! Now I suppose they'll expect me to break in a new man!
- Major Kira: A great man. Li Nalas can handle the job, believe me.
- Odo: Well, you did fairly well at it once I smoothed your rough edges.
- Major Kira: [surprised] Ha!
- Odo: What's so funny?
- Major Kira: [amused] I thought *you* did fairly well - once I smoothed *your* rough edges.
- Commander Sisko: General Krim. I'm Benjamin Sisko. We met during a session of the Executive Committee last year.
- Krim: I remember, Commander. I was impressed by your talk.
- Commander Sisko: As I recall, you disagreed with all of it.
- Krim: Commander Sisko... You told me about the Kressari before you asked the favor regarding Kira... You could've tried to trade that information... for the favor.
- Commander Sisko: I wouldn't do that.
- Krim: I'll remember that about you.
- Minister Jaro: Think of the prestige of having the new leader of Bajor being a member of your order.
- Vedek Winn: If you *are* the new leader.
- Minister Jaro: Have the Prophets given you reason to doubt it?
- Vedek Winn: I didn't say that.
- Minister Jaro: Then let them bless my ascension. Tell the people the Prophets are with me.
- Vedek Winn: That's a lot to ask.
- Minister Jaro: I know that.
- Vedek Winn: I need more than just prestige, Essa.
- Minister Jaro: I know that too.
- Vedek Winn: The people need leadership to return to the old values - yours and mine.
- Minister Jaro: I can think of no one more worthy of being the next Kai than you, Winn. I shall do everything in my power to see that you are.
- Vedek Winn: The Prophets are smiling on you today, Minister.
- Odo: Have you asked Sisko for help?
- Major Kira: I'm sure he'll do whatever he thinks is best for the station.
- Odo: You haven't even gone to him?
- Major Kira: Well, what do you want me to do, Odo?
- Odo: Fight for what you want! It's what you do best!
- Major Kira: [to the crowd that has accumulated in her quarters] Is this a joke? Did you plan this?
- Doctor Bashir: Nobody could have planned this.
- Li Nalas: Commander, anything you need from me, I will try my best to do. But I know that I can never replace Major Kira.
- Commander Sisko: No one could.
- Major Kira: I'm useless here.
- Vedek Bareil: So?
- Major Kira: So? I... I need to feel useful.
- Vedek Bareil: It might be interesting to explore 'useless' for a while - see how it feels.
- [Vedek Bareil has taken Kira into the monastery to show her an orb]
- Vedek Bareil: It is the third orb - the orb of prophecy and change.
- Major Kira: What do I do?
- Vedek Bareil: Be useless, Nerys. Allow the Prophets to guide you.
- Commander Sisko: For a minute I was thinking to myself, there's a warm wind blowing in from Minicoy.
- Minister Jaro: I'm sorry?
- Commander Sisko: It's just an old saying from Earth. It all started with the famous ambassador from Minicoy, who used to bluster, exaggerate and dissemble to get what he wanted - not at all like you or me. He was a bag of hot air, and everyone recognized him for what he was.
- Major Kira: How can you betray your own government?
- Minister Jaro: Major, I don't have to tell you. I've heard your opinion of this government. Government! They can't even agree it is a government, so they call it provisional. It's just another word for 'powerless'.
- Major Kira: If you want to change the government, Minister Jaro, you vote to change it. You don't sneak up from behind it with a dagger.
- Minister Jaro: Frankly, Commander, I'm surprised at your reaction.
- Commander Sisko: I don't think much surprises you, Minister.
- [last lines]
- Commander Sisko: Chief, how long will it take us to evacuate Deep Space 9?
- Chief O'Brien: I'd say we could have all our people out and away in three hours.
- Commander Sisko: I mean a complete evacuation. I intend to take all Starfleet instruments, material... in fact, all Federation property of any kind. How quickly can we do that?
- Chief O'Brien: Sir, that'll take days. A week, for all I know. But those assault ships are going to be here in seven hours.
- Commander Sisko: Then I guess some of us won't quite be done by the time they get here.