Law & Order: Special Victims Unit quotes

[about Logan] I don't think she suffered.

Munch

She suffered.

I mean she was killed instantly.

Munch

I know what you mean.

Munch

[to P.K.] Go buy yourself a blunt.

Daddy, why does Christmas only come once a year?

Stabler

Because Santa Claus' credit cards are all maxed out.

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.

[about Holt] He'll be eligible for parole in 38 years.

But he's almost 60.

Yeah. Isn't math wonderful?

You hate me.

Stabler

I don't hate you. I look at you and I try to see that little child being abused. But now...

You see an abuser.

Stabler

Yeah, yeah I do. I see a guy who, if he ever got near my child...

I don't know what made Holt the way he is. But I do know why I am the way I am. And it stops here. Now.

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?

Have you ever experienced any sexual dysfunction since taking this job? And I'd appreciate a serious answer.

Munch

Once.

Thank you. When did that happen?

Munch

Not sure, but it was definitely within the last 10 minutes.

How long does a case like this stay with you?

Stabler

A while.

What do you do to turn it off?

Stabler

Go home, kiss my wife, hug my kids.

Do you share these cases with your family?

Stabler

No. I don't let that world touch my family.

That world is everywhere. You can't put them on 24-hour surveillance.

Stabler

True, but I don't have to be their tour guide.

You have to work with a lot of cases involving children. How do you handle it?

Stabler

[pause] Have you ever seen an 8-year-old with no soul? I have.

And what do you do when you see that?

Stabler

I think... I think a lot. About the crime, about the victim, about people who do those sorts of things.

And what do you think about?

Stabler

How I could get away with killing them.

Captain Cragen!

Miss Cabot?

Alex.

Yeah. Right. Of course.

Let's not start off on the wrong foot. My assignment to SVU preceded the "behavior problems" under you command.

Behavioral problems?

I'm trying to be polite.

Tip-toeing around the road kill?

Where there's smoke...

Who do you sleep with, Ms. Cabot? Are you so new at this that you haven't run into somebody you wanted skip due process with? I'll apprise you ASAP, if ASAP can be tomorrow. You understand, I have "behavioral problems".

You want me to secure a search warrant for the offices of a defense contractor to search classified, national security files for evidence in a sexually motivated homicide?

Munch

Is that a problem?

[sighs, picks up the phone and dials] Judge Hermann, please. [pause] This is Alex Cabot with the D.A's office. [pause] Uncle Bill... look, I need a favor.

Munch

Reevaluation stinks.

Jeffries

Truly. Best crime stats in 30 years and they're reevaluating?

Munch

It's how it works. We get rid of the criminals they fear, they start fearing us. Public hates tough cops 'til they need one.

[to Michael] A child molester only has power as long as his secret is kept. You tell the truth, his power is gone.

How long have you been on the force?

Stabler

14 years.

In all those years, how many murders have actually made sense?

Stabler

None. But ... some I understood.

But this one ... you let get under your skin. Why?

Stabler

This one my daughter saw.