WWeaver
You think I am guilty because I am a woman with power.
No, I think you are guilty for the same reason you bugged your corporate headquarters. You're a person with power who couldn't bear to lose it.
S17 E10Corner Office
Ask me how I sleep at night.
How do you sleep at night?
Like a baby.
S17 E11Remains of the Day
Even the noblest crusaders aren't beyond a little hypocrisy and it usually involves money.
VDr. Vaughn
He expected me to save his legs, so I did!
You saved his legs. You lost the patient!
VDr. Vaughn
And given the odds, I'd do it again.
Which is why, Dr. Vaughn, your cure is worse than any disease.
S17 E12Charity Case
[McCoy and Connie are investigating an actress whose adopted child died of mistreatment]
So, adopting a baby was just a publicity stunt?
AArcher
I was giving Christopher a better life, and I was drawing attention to a region of the world that is buckling under an AIDS pandemic.
Save that for the press, Mrs. Archer.
AArcher
Was he going to be raised by the nanny? Yes, but so is my daughter, and so are the children of a lot of working women.
Not to the extent that their children are unrecognizable to them.
[over a scotch with McCoy] I wanna have kids, you know? I wanna wake up with them in the morning, make them breakfast, see them off to school, and tuck them in at night. I just can't imagine seeing them as a burden.
Some people are wired wrong. Ugliest part of our work.
Babies... babies as fashion... pour me another.
S17 E13Talking Points
[about Barlow] No wonder they call her 'the most hated bitch in America.'
You mean woman, right?
No, I mean bitch.
BBarlow
People love me.
I'm sure some people love spiders, too.
BBarlow
They eat flies, don't they?
And we know what flies eat.
S17 E14Church
[to Green about Reverend Sterling's arrest] Hey, Ed. Make this one public. I want that hypocritical preacher to feel some pain.
DDawn
My husband is a minister! A man of God! I mean, do you really think he'd be involved in the murder of a homosexual prostitute? Look, why do you hate us so much? Well, is it because we have the courage to worship the Lord? Because we believe in the sanctity of marriage? Because we renounce homosexuality?
Dawn Sterling is a terrific liar.
Yeah. Too bad she's not our witness.
S17 E15Melting Pot
I used to think this was about an immigrant chasing the dollar, but maybe it's just good old-fashioned American greed.
Look, it's one thing to say you shoved someone. It's a big leap to say you strung 'em up.
Or your people didn't push Rodriguez hard enough.
So what? We should've broken out the waterboard? After all, Rodriguez is here illegally.
It was a sloppy interrogation!
My people worked Rodriguez appropriately! If you don't like it, call the Chief of D's.
EEaston
Why would I kill her?
To protect your profit center in illegal workers. Over half of your employees are underpaid, undocumented aliens.
EEaston
Look, maybe I cut a few corners. But it's still my word against the word of this illegal Spanish kid.
And who do you think the jury's gonna believe? A kid who busts his ass sixty hours a week to send $75 to his mother, or a man who flouts the law and parlays his desperation into a small fortune?
If you're convicted of staging Erin Garrett's suicide, I promise, you'll do forty to life. I'm offering you fifteen.
EEaston
I have a family. A wife and kids.
So did Erin Garrett.
[after Easton consults with Oscar about McCoy's plea offer]
OOscar
10 years. No property forfeiture.
The deal is 15 to life.
EEaston
If I didn't hire these people, what else were they gonna do?! How else are they gonna support their families?!
That might be a defense in a labor violation, not a murder. Fifteen years or a trial, Mr. Easton.
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