Alicia Florrick quotes from The Good Wife

Alicia

[to Daniel Golden after he sent a package full of gifts to her home] Don't you ever try to bribe me. And don't you ever try to buy my kids.

Cary

I know we should be at each other's throats, but I just want to say I really respect what you're doing here. Raising a family and then jumping right back into this. My mom, she's thinking of doing the same thing.

Alicia

Great.

Cary

I'm sure it will be challenging, but at the end of the day, what have you really done? Saved a corporation a few billion dollars?

Alicia

You want to trade?

Cary

I would, but I guess they have other plans, so...

Alicia

Last time I was in court was 13 years ago.

Kalinda

Wow, I was 12.

Step in? For how long?

Alicia

For the retrial.

[hopeless] Oh my God.

Mrs. Florrick? The wife of the esteemed Peter Florrick? Your husband and I never quite saw eye to eye, ma'am.

Alicia

Your Honor, I...

Mrs. Florrick, don't talk. But if the prosecution thinks that this will in some way prejudice me against your client, he is sorely mistaken. Nice try, Matan.

Kalinda

You identify with too many clients, you burn out.

Alicia

Why don't you tell me when I do something right, okay?

Kalinda

Sure.

Alicia

You know the new associate, Cary?

Will

The one in the Brioni?

Will

What? I'm observant.

Alicia

Yes, the one in the Brioni. He said to me "may the best man win". What exactly does he mean by that?

Will

What he means is something I thought we weren't making public.

Alicia

What?

Will

Look, we only have one associate position open. So we agreed to hire two applicants and, in six months, decide which one we retain.

Alicia

So this is a contest between me and Cary?

Will

It was either that or a cagematch. I'm just happy your pro bono is going well.

Peter

When I get out, it will all go back to normal.

Alicia

Nothing will ever go back to normal.

[about Jackie] I want her dead.

Alicia

Me too. Just not quite yet.

Alicia

...but it isn't true--

Matan

Objection.

Sustained. Keep trying, Mrs. Florrick. You'll hit on it.

Alicia

Zac, I need the computer.

Mom, I just raised my wanted level.

Alicia

Yeah, I'm happy for you, honey.

Will

It's like old times. Evidentiary procedure. The mock trial.

Alicia

You remember that?

Will

How could I forget? Did we lose that one?

Alicia

Yeah!

Childs

Don't make yourself collateral damage here, for your own sake.

Alicia

Mr. Childs, the day you leaked that sex tape to the press and forced me to shield my children from every cable news station that played it in a 24 hour rotation, that was the day I became collateral damage. If you're worried about my husband, Mr. Childs, you've obviously never made a woman angry before.

Alicia

You're not just making this up?

Kalinda

Come on, it's a Stern, Lockhart tradition. Your first jury trial... shot of tequila. Let's go.

Kalinda

Yeah, I just made that up.