"What can I say? I hate power hungry bitches who think they can manipulate their way into power and get away with it." He's telling the truth, but he's helpfully leaving out the reason why he feels that way. After all, he's mostly mad that he wasn't the one to do it himself. Sylvia got there before him. He'll fix that though.

He considers making a cheap jab about Cooper's flask, something to do with how Nancy drinks so heavily and they must enable each other, but he thinks better of it. Just this once, Cesare thinks he should probably get along ok with Cooper. Besides, when Nancy spent her nights with him, he didn't exactly discourage her.

"Call me odd, but I don't think a stance against corruption is particularly mind boggling. Don't you want to clean up our fine city?"