"I don't have any friends. I don't have any family left, either. Went around the world looking for bad guys, There were plenty of you right here all along."
John Reese - S01E01 "Pilot"
John Greer: We are all men without a country now. These invisible lines we draw on the world... I realize they have no meaning. Why should a man lose his life for something illusory?
"The Cold War" S04E10
Harold Finch: We're fighting a war that's already over. All this mayhem? It isn't some plucky underground resistance movement. It's an extinction burst.
"The Day The World Went Away" S5E10
Harold Finch: Have you been under any excess stress?
John Reese: You mean besides being locked in an 11'x13' at Rikers and wearing a bomb vest around Manhattan?
"One Percent" S2E14
Kara Stanton: Don't your bosses at the Ministry of State Security have anything better for you to do?
John Greer: My dear, if you think I work for the government, I really must fire my tailor.
"Dead Reckoning" S2E13
Harold Finch: What are we gonna do with this?
Root: I don't know yet, but I am truly enjoying this new side of you, Harold. It's very unexpected.
"Wingman" S4E03
"When you find that one person who connects you to the world, you become someone different, someone better. When that person is taken from you, what do you become then?"
— John Reese, "Pilot"/"Many Happy Returns"