"Praise the Lord and pass the amunition." QBS
"He beat a girl's head in. That's not in my notebook."
"I like my law better than yours."
"Every good lawyer knows to file a complaint before he knows about the case."
"When seven people end up dead, I send out engraved invitations."
"Six counts of murder two. Even with a lenient judge, he dies of old age and still owes the state fifty years."
Lawyer: "What do you want?"
Ben: "In a perfect world, I'd like to see your client locked in a room for a week with these women." QBS
"Lyndon Johnson tried governing by popularity polls. It didn't work."
"You don't like the system, go get a gun."
"She doesn't have an uncle."
"Murder is as grave as it gets, sir."
"I don't have time to play Monty Hall either."
"This is a conspiracy to smuggle drugs. You can't expect a busload of nuns."
"I hope there's an afterlife. For some crimes, the penal law is inadequate."
"Last month my daughter was reading Diary of Anne Frank and she thought it was fiction."
"The blindfolded lady has two scales. We should never look like we have our finger on one of them."
[Scene: During cross-examination, Stone presses Capt. Bunker by bringing up the prostitute he roughed up as proof of his tendency toward violence.]
Capt. Bunker: "That bitch deserved it."
Ben Stone: "Which bitch is that sir?" QBS
"A little crow won't give me indigestion."
Suspect: "You must think I'm pretty stupid to kill a couple of nurses."
Stone: "It doesn't take a college degree to sit in your chair, sir."
"My opinion is not evidence."
"Why use a tin flute when you can get a trumpet?"
"My dad told me he'd been a finalist in the city's Golden Gloves tournament. I checked the record books. His name wasn�t there. Must have been a misprint."
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