Olivia Benson quotes from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

This is America. You can't do this.

Benson

Sweetheart, let me let you in on a little secret. Cops are the same everywhere.

Jeffries

Wow. 4.7 million in one year.

Cassidy

That's pretty good for a fledgling charity.

Benson

Fledgling? I'm impressed.

Cassidy

Yeah, that's right, I'm a real dope, aren't I? You know what I did last night? I looked it up and memorized it just so I could impress you.

Munch

Not the Benjamin Hadley? More powerful than Pat Robertson, able to leap a tall Democrat in a single bound, President of Midvale College, which used to be a Podunk nothing; now it's suddenly a think tank for the neo-conservative movement?

Benson

Although that's an oxymoron.

Munch

I love you, Olivia.

Benson

I always carry at least a pair of earrings in my purse.

Stabler

Yeah, like you carry a purse.

Benson

That's 'cause you carry it for me.

Why don't you take all the burglaries in Manhattan?

Benson

We only want the one where the burglar spills his seed in the victim's u-trou.

Benson

Frick and Frack.

Stabler

Alfonse and Gaston.

Munch

Slappy and Happy.

Jeffries

You know how it is. You spend time with someone, eventually they will corrupt you.

Munch

Sure. It's a major historical force that drags great people to the lowest common denominator.

Benson

With you around, we're all doomed.

The Internet has opened up a whole world of possibilities.

Stabler

Easy access. No more trees to climb, no binoculars to lug around. You can look into a little girl's bedroom with just a click of a mouse.

You see?

Benson

See what?

You see why the children love me? He's so cold, so angry. The kids from the bad homes, the neglected ones, the abused... when they leave the social worker's office with their anatomically correct dolls, when they leave the police station, they're in tears.

Benson

What's your point, Wallace?

When they leave me, they're all smiles.

You close your eyes, is that it, to have sex?

Olivia

I have sex with my eyes wide open.

Benson

I bet I know what you're thinking.

Stabler

Bet you don't.

Benson

Even the best parents can't protect their children.

Stabler

Gutter at home. Part of it is broken. I need to fix it.

Benson

Well, you can't do everything.

Stabler

You'd feel everything for them if you could. All the pain.

Benson

Sometimes I just look at the kids and I think, "Why? Why do it at all?"

Stabler

Because you want to more than anything in the world. 'Cause you want to love them every day.

Honey, I'd like a mineral water, no ice.

Benson

And I'd like your balls in a blender, but ain't life a bitch?

Benson

[after Stabler's talk with Dr. Skoda] Hey. How'd it go?

Stabler

I talked too much. Again.

Stabler

Wilding's back in vogue.

Benson

I hate that word: "wilding." Like it's some kind of party.

[about the victim, Nafeesa Amir] What, it's her fault she was raped?

Benson

She brought shame and dishonor to her family. They behead women for that where she comes from.

Munch

My first wife dishonored me. I had to pay her alimony.

I already lost Nafeesa. I don't want to lose Jaleel too.

Benson

But Nafeesa hasn't lost her honor. Have you lost yours?

Olivia

How did you know?

Munch

We searched her house, I looked at that four-year-old, flashed on a little girl that used to live across the street from us in our old neighborhood on the Lower East Side. She had that same look in her eyes.

Olivia

What look?

Munch

Sad, lost. She used to stand on her porch every afternoon when I came home from school. Like she was waiting for me. Sometimes, she'd have a black eye or a bloody lip. Never said anything to me. Just looked at me like she was trying to tell me something. But I was too full of my own teenage crap to pay any attention. One day, I came home. She wasn't there. Found out her mother threw her through a plate glass window. Went to the funeral. Saw her dad. It's the first time I saw a grown man cry.

Benson

What happened to her mother?

Munch

They sent her to a sanitarium. She told my mother she didn't understand what all the fuss was about. She was the one that had to get a new window. Months later, I'd come home and I'd look up at the porch. I swear, I saw that little girl standing there, looking at me with that look. I almost let her down again.