Law and Order Quotes
Robinette: You think I sold out?
Stone: Does it matter what I think? If it does I’ll tell you, but it’s something you got to decide for yourself.
Robinette: You got a ‘shave yourself in the morning’ speech?
Stone: Maybe. Do you think of yourself as a black lawyer, or a lawyer who’s black?
Robinette: Depends on the context.
Stone: You make a decision based on something from within. You live with it, you examine it, it’s all you got.
Robinette: You think by morning I’ll come to love it?
Stone: No, but I don’t think you’ll have any problem with the guy in the mirror. See you tomorrow.
Stone: Does it matter what I think? If it does I’ll tell you, but it’s something you got to decide for yourself.
Robinette: You got a ‘shave yourself in the morning’ speech?
Stone: Maybe. Do you think of yourself as a black lawyer, or a lawyer who’s black?
Robinette: Depends on the context.
Stone: You make a decision based on something from within. You live with it, you examine it, it’s all you got.
Robinette: You think by morning I’ll come to love it?
Stone: No, but I don’t think you’ll have any problem with the guy in the mirror. See you tomorrow.
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Ronald Eaton: You look me in the eye and you tell me this system is just. This system is equal.
Robinette: At times the system stinks, Eaton. I know that as well as you do. But don’t for one damn minute tell me that your self-aggrandizing polarization is going to solve the problem. Don’t tell me that tearing down a 200-year old justice system, no matter how flawed, is going to alter the consciousness of a society. Now, we’re past the separate drinking-fountain stage. We’re past legal discrimination. We’re at the hearts and minds stage. And believe me, there’s no quick fix.
Robinette: At times the system stinks, Eaton. I know that as well as you do. But don’t for one damn minute tell me that your self-aggrandizing polarization is going to solve the problem. Don’t tell me that tearing down a 200-year old justice system, no matter how flawed, is going to alter the consciousness of a society. Now, we’re past the separate drinking-fountain stage. We’re past legal discrimination. We’re at the hearts and minds stage. And believe me, there’s no quick fix.
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Ronald Eaton: Another zombified soul casts his vote for order rather than justice. Negative peace over positive peace.
Robinette: Paraphrasing Martin Luther King’s thoughts won’t lend credence to yours. King walked with the angels...you’d slide in slime on your belly to get what you want.
Robinette: Paraphrasing Martin Luther King’s thoughts won’t lend credence to yours. King walked with the angels...you’d slide in slime on your belly to get what you want.
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Max Greevey: Seventeen-year-olds shouldn't be doing the thing that makes babies.
Logan: And crooks shouldn't have guns. Get real.
Logan: And crooks shouldn't have guns. Get real.
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Stone: Objection, this case is being judged on the temporal plane, your honor.
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Kevin Donovan: : [talking about the effect of his sister's death. He seems almost numb.] This morning, my father made himself a cup of coffee. Put in milk, sugar...then he went over to the sink and poured it down the drain. He didn't know what he was doing. I was taking the highway to work, and I forgot to get off. I got to 95th street before I realized. I used to have a sister, and suddenly...I don't.
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D.A. Adam Schiff: Amazing. Getting angry. The most emotional issue that the law has dealt with since suffrage. Look at us: three men. Talking about what rights women should have over their own bodies. Now doesn’t that strike you as a little one-sided?
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Mr. Donovan: Our daughter acted according to her own conscience. We can live with that-
Mrs. Donovan: [interrupts him, distraught]YOU can live with that! A martyr will never be able to tell me what a wonderful day she had at school. A martyr will never have a wedding. A martyr will never have children!
Mrs. Donovan: [interrupts him, distraught]YOU can live with that! A martyr will never be able to tell me what a wonderful day she had at school. A martyr will never have a wedding. A martyr will never have children!
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Stone: If you’re gonna stick your finger in my eye, Mr. Ballard, clean your own nails first.
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Stone: If abortion is murder, then no matter how you feel about Mary Donovan, aren't you guilty of the murder of her unborn child?
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Greevey: What if it was just you and Walker, alone in an alley, he had no gun, and was willing to surrender?
Det. Profaci: I'd shoot him in the face.
Det. Profaci: I'd shoot him in the face.
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Cassie: You know, when I was a little girl, mama used to tell me that you do good? You'll be okay. [pauses] I guess kids got to believe that. 'Else they'd never grow up.
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Landlord: I never got the fuss when a cop gets killed. You guys get paid to deal with scum- Whatcha think's gonna happen, you do that? Two weeks, three weeks... you'll be gone. But I'll still be here, and so will the company that pays my salary.
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Ben Stone: Do you know what this is?
Convict: It's a gun.
Stone: [sarcastically] Very good, can you spell gun?
Convict: Sure. D-E-A-L.
Stone: I see you've passed the spelling test.
Convict: It's a gun.
Stone: [sarcastically] Very good, can you spell gun?
Convict: Sure. D-E-A-L.
Stone: I see you've passed the spelling test.
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D.A. Adam Schiff: I don’t photograph well with egg on my face, how about you?
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Delivery Man: Look man, you know how hard it is to get work? I keep my eyes closed, I keep my job.
Greevey: What about your ears?
Delivery Man: Sure, I hear stuff.
Greevey: What kind of stuff?
Delivery Man: Like guys that talk don’t talk for very long. Look, I’ve seen Godfather I, II, and III.
Greevey: What about your ears?
Delivery Man: Sure, I hear stuff.
Greevey: What kind of stuff?
Delivery Man: Like guys that talk don’t talk for very long. Look, I’ve seen Godfather I, II, and III.
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Cragen: This is New York, remember? Sometimes people get beat up just for the hell of it. Sometimes they even get dead, it's a fact of life.
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Logan: Hey, they don’t play by the rules, why should we?
Stone: Because that’s our job.
Stone: Because that’s our job.
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Stone: 'Big Frankie', ha, ‘Dandy Don.’
D.A. Adam Schiff: You too can have monogrammed socks.
D.A. Adam Schiff: You too can have monogrammed socks.
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Logan: Let me ask you something. If you liked Isaac so much, why’d you clean his register?
Hoover: Didn’t look like he was gonna need it.
Hoover: Didn’t look like he was gonna need it.
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Greevey: Did you see anything unusual in the neighborhood this morning?
Newspaper Delivery Worker: It’s Greenwich Village, man. You tell me.
Newspaper Delivery Worker: It’s Greenwich Village, man. You tell me.
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Laurel McGinty: I inspect five buildings a day, five days a week, fifty weeks a year. So I missed a couple of violations, I’m human. You never lost a case, Mr. Stone?
Stone: Well, one mistake is human. Two is perhaps a lapse in concentration. Three is stupid, but the same mistake consistently over a period of two years indicates another form of human fallibility here.
Laurel McGinty: Such as what?
Stone: Greed?
Stone: Well, one mistake is human. Two is perhaps a lapse in concentration. Three is stupid, but the same mistake consistently over a period of two years indicates another form of human fallibility here.
Laurel McGinty: Such as what?
Stone: Greed?
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Judge Fishbein: You lost, Mr. Robinette. This is America. One strike and you're out.
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Robinette: That’s why we need a warrant.
Judge Fishbein: [laughing] A warrant. Sounds like a fishing license to me.
Judge Fishbein: [laughing] A warrant. Sounds like a fishing license to me.
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Greevey: [in a lot filled with exhumed corpses] What have we got so far?
Logan: Masucci’s greatest hits.
Logan: Masucci’s greatest hits.
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Stone: Call Cragen and tell him to pick up Masucci.
Robinette: For what?
Stone: I don’t give a damn. For spitting on the sidewalk.
Robinette: For what?
Stone: I don’t give a damn. For spitting on the sidewalk.
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Pilefsky: You’re bluffing.
Logan: Yeah, you’re right. We’d be real upset if something happened to a piece of crap like you.
Logan: Yeah, you’re right. We’d be real upset if something happened to a piece of crap like you.
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Greevey: From '80 to '88, Beigal made The Post's 50 Worst Landlords list. Last two years, he's spotless.
Cragen: Maybe he got religion.
Cragen: Maybe he got religion.
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Greevey: You ever hear of Don Quixote?
Stone: Did you ever hear about David and Goliath? And we have God on our side.
Stone: Did you ever hear about David and Goliath? And we have God on our side.
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Logan: Katherine Beigel did in ten seconds what we couldn't do for ten years. Put Frank Masucci out of business. Permanently.
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