Law and Order Quotes

Adam Schiff: ...after twenty years in this office, you'd think you'd have a sense of reality.
Ben Stone: Reality? The reality is that no one is willing to draw a line in the sand. Nobody is willing to say that the law is the law. And if you break it, you will be prosecuted: win, lose or draw.

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Capt. Donald Cragen: It's a case of he said, she said, he's dead

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D.A. Adam Schiff: It's kinda tough finding out you married your stalker.

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Detective Mike Logan: Here's a little police magic. Shazam! You're under arrest.

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Dr. Phil Mitrano: [about Barnett] He's far more calculating than your typical pedophile. Barnett never chooses victims of opportunity, like children of a girlfriend, or a second wife. He's a true predator; unrepentant, unstoppable. No amount of therapy will change that.

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Durango Kid: Why didn't you shoot me when you had the chance?
Frame Johnson: I'm hired to keep the peace, not kill people.
Durango Kid: Seems like the two of them sort of go hand in hand.
Frame Johnson: At least you got the satisfaction of knowin' you'll get hung legal.
Durango Kid: That might be some satisfaction to you. But I can't help thinkin' you wind up dead either way.

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Neighbor: [a snoopy neighbor witnessed a rape and didn't report it] Do I need a lawyer?
Elliot Stabler: For being a peeping tom? No, you just need a shrink.

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Dr. Edward Auster: You solve every case you work on?
Logan: We can tell a felony from a traffic ticket.
Dr. Edward Auster: Look, a patient walks in with a headache. She could have a subarachnoid hemorrhage, a berry aneurysm, a retro-orbital tumor...or does she just have a headache? Do you give her an aspirin? Or do you saw open her skull?
Greevey: You make this speech at funerals?

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Philip Nevins: Isn't it possible that pneumonia killed Suzanne Morton?
Medical Examiner: It's possible that death rays from Mars killed her. But I don't think so.

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Dr. Edward Auster: Well, people like to believe that medicine is pure science. Medicine is a science. But doctors know it's also a lottery.

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Stone: We got what we needed from Dr. Simonson.
Dr. Edward Auster: An intern, Mr. Stone. Are you planning on asking the cleaning lady to testify, too? About the time I threw the tissue into the wastepaper basket and missed?

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Stone: You know the difference between Auster and a serial killer?
Robinette: The weapon.

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Dr. Edward Auster: When you practice medicine, Mr. Stone, sometimes the patient dies.
Stone: And when you're a lawyer, Dr. Auster, some of the people you prosecute are convicted.

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Dr. Raza: My children want to stay in this country, my wife wants to stay, and to stay, all I have to do is to be perfect all the time!
Mike Logan: Well you, uh, fell a little short of perfection on Suzanne Morton's chart.

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Stone: Do you have any other personal views on this subject you'd like to air before we walk into court and Ms. Shambala Green hands us our asses on a platter?

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Greevey: What do you want?
Stone: I'd like someone around here to stay on one side of the issue for ten seconds!

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Stone: You said 'Here's your taste'. Sounds rather cool!

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Logan: We're not talking about 'Squeaky' Fromme here.

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Greevey: Do you think a lot of cops are gay?
Logan: No way, man. The department's got a special test. They look you in the eye, and if your left eye blinks before your right eye, they know you're gay. [blinks at Greevey with his left eye]

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Jack Curry: What gives you the right to decide how I should live the rest of my life?
Stone: Unfortunately, you did. Not once, not twice, but three times.

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[A defendant has just punched Stone in the jaw]
Stone: It only hurts when I prosecute.

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Greevey: How many times would you go out with her before you went to bed with her?
Logan: Once.
Greevey: You ever hear of AIDS?
Logan: You ever hear of condoms?

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Logan: Are we 'your kind of people'?
Manager: Well, you make it in the looks department, but the wardrobe needs a lot of help.

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Robinette: At least we gave them justice.
Stone: Justice doesn't give you grandchildren.

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Greevey: And guess who it was registered to?
Stone: Himes, Gilbert?
Logan: Nope. And not to Ralston, Janet, either.
Stone: [surprised] Ralston, Alan?!?! Great. He was killed with his own gun.

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Greevey: That's amazing. I know cops who been in shooting cases that can't remember their badge numbers afterwards. Her husband gets shot, she gets shot, victim of a horrible crime, she remembers every second.

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Stone: True love. They'd sell each other out for a nickel.

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Stone: Either she's evil, or she's two years old. She wants what she wants when she wants it.

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Janet Ralston: You don't scare me, Mr. Stone.
Stone: Oh yes I do, Mrs. Ralston. I scare you a great deal. And I should.

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Greevey: I hate horseback riding. Scares the hell out of me.
Logan: Scary for the horse, too.

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