Benjamin Stone quotes from Law & Order

[to a mentally ill witness] Your psychiatrist tells us that you have moments of rational thought. We're going to take care of you, and you're going to go back in there and have one of those moments.

Banks kill with a thousand cuts, not a blow to the head.

If we had perfect cases, we wouldn't need juries.

Bar Association dinner next week, Adam's getting an award. I bought a new tuxedo. I have to wonder who made it.

I hope there's an afterlife. Some crimes, the penal law isn't good enough.

They say a boy doesn't become a man until his father passes away. Leon took care of that in one fell swoop.

So, let's suppose that it's true what Defense Attorney Schell implies that each of you, all of you, sympathize with the defendants, trapped as they are in their fears; that, in fact, more people hate homosexuals than are willing to admit, then I venture to say that somewhere in your family history, someone somewhere hates you or your relatives for no other reason than that they are black or white, Slovak instead of Czech, Protestant instead of Catholic, left-wing not right. And are you going to let officers of the law determine which of you they will help based on who and what you are? If so, then don't dial 9-1-1, even if you think you're one of them because you may end up being Officer Newhouse. These defendants let a man die and, for all of us, you must hold them responsible.

Mr. Bregman, in all my years of prosecuting, you are possibly the stupidest criminal I have ever met.

While justice must be tempered with mercy, it can never lose a sense of retribution, or it is no longer justice.

Benny Williams was never Pat's father. He just happened to be in the room when Pat was conceived.

Just once, I'd like to hear someone in this country stand up and say "I did it. I'm the one responsible for my actions, not my television set, and not the color of my skin." And if it makes you feel good to call me a racist, fine. But if you want to know who's really responsible for racism in today's society, take a good look in the mirror.

We got what we needed from Dr. Simonson.

An intern, Mr. Stone. Are you planning on asking the cleaning lady to testify, too? About the time I threw the tissue into the wastepaper basket and missed?

You know the difference between Auster and a serial killer?

Robinette

The weapon.

When you practice medicine, Mr. Stone, sometimes the patient dies.

And when you're a lawyer, Dr. Auster, some of the people you prosecute are convicted.

Greevey

What do you want?

I'd like someone around here to stay on one side of the issue for ten seconds!