Jack McCoy quotes from Law & Order

You're treating me like I killed those people up there.

McCoy

What about the people you did kill? Don't they count?

McCoy

Are you alright?

I'm thinking, Mr. McCoy. Just thinking.

I'm just trying to resolve a difficult case in the fairest way possible.

McCoy

Fair? There was nothing fair about what happened to Jackie Ogden.

Forgiveness is a Christian ideal.

McCoy

And if you don't believe in Christ, well, then you'll just have to serve your time?

[after Elwin agrees to plead guilty] I'm just curious, Jack. What were you going to offer?

McCoy

I was considering going as low as Man One, praise the Lord.

Millions spent on prisons and almost nothing for health insurance...

McCoy

I don't make social policy.

No. You just have to clean up after those who do.

McCoy

If you want to fire me, Arthur, go ahead. I'm not going to apologize for what I did.

Well then, you just don't get it, Jack. You know, you're a great prosecutor, but you'll never be a district attorney.

I'll cancel my date.

McCoy

You sure?

Yeah, he's pretty annoying anyway.

You can't protect me or my son in there, and you know that but you don't really care, so you're negotiating in bad faith, Mr. McCoy.

McCoy

I'm not sure what else we can do here. Please explain to your client that there isn't a better deal.

Your deal will kill my son.

McCoy

You understand what you're facing, Mr. Drucker, a life in prison.

Actually, I think I understand it better than you do, Mr. McCoy.

McCoy

A white woman sterilizing delinquent girls because she judged them unfit to reproduce? Eugenics.

I thought that ended in Nazi Germany.

Her neighbor says they were near divorce, until Arlene got pregnant. It's kind of sad, don't you think?

McCoy

This woman did a murder-kidnapping. Breaks my heart.

Jack, Arthur gave you the out. You could have handed off this case.

McCoy

Would you let intimidation effect the way you prosecuted a crime?

I'm not talking about intimidation, I'm talking about getting killed.

McCoy

It doesn't make a difference. It's about the law. It doesn't work if we don't make it work.

Fontana and Green are on the way. They wanna get our statements.

McCoy

Fine.

Jack, are you okay? Jack?

McCoy

I thought he was aiming at me.

Religious fervor.

McCoy

The nitroglycerin of the 21st century.

I killed a man. For what? I can't go through with this now.

McCoy

It isn't your decision, Mr. Speicher. A man has been murdered, and everyone who was involved needs to held responsible.

The people who are really responsible are all dead.