Jack: "I'm playing legal tiddlywinks with these punks. What I'd really like to do is take them out to Battery Park and hang them by the scrotum."
Adam: "Understandable sentiment, but stick to tiddlywinks."
Jamie: "A dead baby and no one's responsible."
Adam: "No one was responsible when it was alive either."
"Facts don't make sentences!"
"Don't you people have a murder trial starting in eleven hours? And remember it is a murder trial, not a debate between Gloria Steinman and George Beck." SHTP
Jack: "I'm just swatting at an image."
Adam: "Swat harder."
"If either conviction survives an appeal, I'll buy a new hat."
Jack: "He got arrogant."
Adam: "An occupational hazard of people with the power of life and death."
Jack: "Like doctors."
Adam: "And prosecutors."
"In the world of public relations, a hung jury is as good as an acquittal."
Jack: "I got a call from Ed Danvers in the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office."
Adam: "Funny, I got a call from his boss."
"When they get here, just make sure our detectives play nice."
Jamie: "I can just imagine what he was afraid of."
Adam: "Don't imagine it, prove it."
"We're in the wrong business."
[Jack, Jamie, and Adam are discussing the case over lunch. Jamie's info hurts their case.]
"Why do you always give me bad news while I'm digesting?" SHTP
"You win their minds, she wins their hearts."
"You have nothing better to do than prosecute this woman?"
"Self defense? The dead man imported cotton. What'd he attack him with, cotton balls?"
"You looked a 3000 year old abomination in the face and beat it back."
(after Jamie informs them Carson is using her father's defense): "Maybe it's genetic."
(to the Congressman): "Pressman's no clown...he's a ringmaster and you're his star attraction."
"Two snakes eating each other's tails. Pry one of them lose."
Jack: "We're supposed to let her off with three years and help her gauge her husband for alimony?"
Adam: "You'll get over it."
"I don't make decision a on which cases to prosecute based on what the newspapers will say."
"Oh, I see, I'm an old fuddy-duddy."
"She gets executed; what's the downside?"
"He hasn't had a thought since the Carter administration."
"Don't get weepy on me. I'm not Nixon and you're not Ehrlichman."
(to Anderton): "Couldn't you at least wait till I've finished dinner?"
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