Steve McGarrett quotes from Hawaii Five-O (1968)

McGarrett

Don't bleed, Danno, think!

McGarrett

[to Danno] Well, if there is anything else, you better remember it. A cop pulls his gun, he better remember every single detail. There's always trouble when you pull a gun, more if you fire it. You hit somebody, and you're up to your hip pockets in it. And if a cop kills somebody, every single fact better jive or he gets nailed to the wall. He's guilty until he proves himself innocent. Now that's backwards, ugly and unfair but that's the way it is.

McGarrett

Some of our best work is luck.

McGarrett

I don't think you've been listening, Miss Michaels. I've known a hundred Joeys. As soon as he's finished using you, as soon as he makes that one big hit or he gets in a tight spot and he can run faster without you, then comes the kiss-off. But you know that better than I do. Think about it, huh?

McGarrett

[to Chin, as a witness refuses to look at a line-up] Talk to him some more. Maybe he'll develop a public conscience, huh?

McGarrett

Interesting theory. You'll make a good cop one of these days, Danno.

McGarrett

[discussing his sister with Danno after hearing of his nephew's death] She cried so hard, she choked on her own tears. The telephone turned to salt in my hand.

McGarrett

I abhor violence in any form. I think that violence breeds violence on any level. Every war, every riot started with one individual act of violence. I’m a peace officer. Euphemism? Maybe. But I want peace more than anything else in the world.

McGarrett

Lesson one. Nobody is loved by everybody.

McGarrett

There are dangerous animals in the world and some of them walk on two feet. They don't want peace and they're not capable of love. Society [...] need[s] protection from these warped minds, and that's my job. Now, you have every right to sing about peace, and march about it, write about it... but what I just told you is the way it is, unfortunately. That's why we're armed.

McGarrett

[repeated line] Book him, Danno. Murder one.

McGarrett

[after each episode preview] Be there. Aloha!

McGarrett

Kono?

Blanksville.

McGarrett

Danno?

Danno

Double blanksville.

Chin

Chin Ho Kelly strikes again!

McGarrett

Shut up and sit down.

McGarrett

Book him.

Wait a minute. You can’t do that!

McGarrett

Book him!

[grinning] Mister, right now I’d hate to be your boss.

You have any idea of the red tape involved in getting an out-of-state body exhumed for autopsy?

McGarrett

Yes, sir. That’s why I came directly to the Attorney General.

In that case, the difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes us a little longer.

McGarrett

How much longer?

McGarrett, at times I get the distinct impression you think I work for you.

McGarrett

Oh no, sir.

You’re certain?

McGarrett

Oh yes, sir.

I’m glad one of us is.

McGarrett

You know, it's a funny thing. I'm used to Intelligence playing it cool. Really cool. But you seem more interested in a quiet funeral than in finding out who killed your man.

You go ahead and think what you like, McGarrett.

McGarrett

Thanks. I usually do.