Law and Order Quotes

Stone: Justice is blind, detective. Nobody said it was fair.

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Cragen: Nobody has a 'verbal altercation' anymore, you notice that?

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Stone: You know, this Chamber of Commerce routine is getting on my nerves.

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Logan: Ronald, stupid and tough is a bad combination.
Ronald Griggs: Yeah, well, it works for you, man, right?

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Mrs Griggs: Maybe if we knew exactly what you were looking for-
Logan: We wanna know who pulled the damn trigger! 'Cause it sure as hell looks like your Ronnie did it.
Mrs Griggs: [Turns slowly to Ronnie] Tell them, Ronnie
Ronald Griggs: [Smugly] No.
[Mrs Griggs stands up, raises her hand and slaps Ronnie fiercely]
Mrs Griggs: You think you can play this fool game with me?!

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[Logan Greevey are interrogating Diz Williams, a suspect in the murder]
Mr Williams: My boy is 13, you can't do nothing like this! You gotta go to juvey, you gotta-
Greevey: We can do plenty when it comes to felony homicide, Mr Williams! So if you don't wanna blow parole, just shut up!

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Robinette: We need motive.
Greevey: Who says the little son of a bitch needs motive?
Cragen: Max...
Greevey: [loudly and with anger. At each 'Bam' he mimes gunshot] What the hell's his motive for this anyway?! "He took my seat." BAM. "He looked at my girlfriend." BAM! "I need dem shoes." BAM!
Cragen: Max has been busting his chops on this case.
Robinette: I understand...
Greevey: Hey, I can apologize for myself, alright? Only I don't feel very apologetic! I'm fed up!

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Kay’s Lawyer: You haven’t mentioned any incentives for cooperation.
Stone: No? Well...how is this: if your client doesn’t start talking now, I’ll tear his life apart.

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Stone: The Commandment says: 'Thou shalt not kill.' It does not say 'Thou shalt not kill nice people.'

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Shambala Greene: I'm going for temporary insanity.
Stone: Yours or your client's?

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Sasha Osinski: [on the witness stand] Some of my money in bank, yeah.
Stone: Some? Now, the bank records show that there was, last month, $6,011,301.26.
Sasha Osinski: If you say so.
Stone: And the month before that, $9,615.
Sasha Osinski: Sounds right.
Stone: A six million dollar difference, uh…good month at the discount store, sir?

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D.A. Adam Schiff: A prosecution based on debt re-financing. That’s going to get you real far with the jury.
Stone: I’ll lay it out for them. I'll draw them a Monopoly board.
D.A. Adam Schiff: Yeah, I’d like to see them get from 'Park Place' to 'Go.'

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Logan:  : [They look through a Lebanese restaurant's garbage ] How could somebody eat something that could even get to smell that bad?!

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Special Agent Axelrod: What’s the matter with you guys in the D.A.'s office? Got no peripheral vision? Can't you see the big picture?
Robinette: We're just not blinded by it.

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Robinette: Its a whole new concept: crime without punishment

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Patrick McCarter: I'm no terrorist. I'm a soldier
Daniel Mallahan: What he means is, he is a man of conscience.
Stone: What he means is, he is the misguided, romantic dupe of those who consider him completely expendable.

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Logan: You know, it's weird. Two of our grandparents come from the same town. We've both got uncles that's priests.
Greevey: And you're both Libras. That’s destiny for you.

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Logan: [reading faxes written in Arabic] Looks like a breakdancing chicken wrote this.

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Greevey: O'Connell will have you believing there's no snakes in Ireland.
Logan: There aren't.
Greevey: Uh, touché.

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Ian O'Connell: May I ask you a question, sir? How with the map of Donegal on your mug did you ever end up with a name like Stone?
Stone: Happenstance, sir. Same way you ended up with the name of a real Irish patriot.

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[After O'Connell has dismissed lethal IRA operations as 'human error'; following the testimony of a woman whose family was killed by a bomb O'Connell himself planted]
Stone: [To O'Connell] Take a good look. There's your "human error".

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Logan: [about McDaniel having his kidney stolen] Whoa! Talk about getting your pocket picked!

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Cragen: Grand theft kidney. Terrific.

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Surgeon: Kidney, kidney, never leave home without one.

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Logan: You didn't think it odd that she had an anaesthesia machine delivered right to her apartment?
Medical supplier: Last week, I had a guy order 100 bedpans. For jello molds.

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Drew McDaniel: [testifying in court about his kidney being taken] People talk about feeling violated when some punk breaks into their apartment and steals a TV set. I felt raped.

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O.T.N. Executive: The public must understand that the Organ Transplant Network is the one true democracy. One of the few instances where money doesn’t talk. At all.

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DA Adam Schiff: Why would a man in the position to help his people do something like that? What the hell happened to 'give me your huddled masses?' What the hell happened to this city?

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Mobster: [after finding a body in his freezer] I even called around. 'Hey, did anybody whack dis guy what's in my freezer?'

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Joanna Woodleigh: If you prosecute him, he'll die. I know he will. And for what? Mr. MacDaniel is going to be a very wealthy man.
Stone: With only one kidney.
Joanna Woodleigh: Just like I have, Mr. Stone. The hope is we'll both live long and happy lives.
Stone: Please believe me, I'm glad you're healthy again. I know how close to death you were. But, Ms. Woodleigh, do you really think your father would have acted any differently if you had needed a heart instead of a kidney?

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