20x23 - Rubber Room Season 20 / Episode 23: - Rubber Room

D.A. Jack McCoy: Just how far up your ass is your head? A member of your union is threatening to shoot up a school!
Mr. Kralik: Really? I find it hard to believe any teacher could be pushed over the edge. What do you think did it, Mr. McCoy? Is it being micromanaged by the Department of Education, or having all the responsibility and none of the authority? Or, is it having to dig into their own pockets to pay for classroom supplies, or maybe it's being abused and assaulted daily by students and their parents?
D.A. Jack McCoy: You get no argument from me there. But if your obstruction allows a massacre to happen, I will crucify you Mr. Kralik. I will charge you with negligent homicide and after I convict you I will resign my job and represent the families of the victims in a wrongful death suit against you and the union. By the time I'm done, you'll be finished. So my advice to you is GET OUTTA MY WAY!
20x22 - Love Eternal Season 20 / Episode 22: - Love Eternal

Marielle Di Napoli: How can you murder your own soul?
Judge Mark Lee: Stick around. You'll see.
20x15 - Brilliant Disguise Season 20 / Episode 15: - Brilliant Disguise

Detective Kevin Bernard: Robbie, put the rat down!
20x08 - Doped Season 20 / Episode 8: - Doped

Announcer: [voiceover narration] In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.
20x05 - Dignity Season 20 / Episode 5: - Dignity

Executive A.D.A. Michael Cutter: I'd like to show you something... People's 32 this is the wallet that Walter Benning was carrying when he was shot. And I want to show you these photos of his children and grandchildren. Photos that are stained with... I can't, I can't do this there's, there's been too much heartbreaking testimony. Just too much. We're dealing with an issue here that goes to the very mystery of our existence. What is life? When does it begin? At conception? At viability? At birth? And in good faith, we seek guidance from our moral leaders, from scientists. And we want so much to do the right thing, you know, the-the just thing. And we want reason and empathy to lead us to an answer, and-and we struggle so much to find that answer. Why? Because... because despite all our differences, we are joined in one belief that every life is special and unique and imbued with inalienable rights, and that belief compels us to reject the violence... and the unreasoned chaos that Wayne Grogan's act represents. Thank you.  
20x05 - Dignity Season 20 / Episode 5: - Dignity

Detective Kevin Bernard: [a man has been killed in a church, during a service] It has to be said: can I get a witness?
20x04 - Reality Bites Season 20 / Episode 4: - Reality Bites

D.A. Jack McCoy: [watching an excerpt from the reality show] Not very entertaining, what happened to the Cosbys?
Executive A.D.A. Michael Cutter: They didn't have enough kids.
20x04 - Reality Bites Season 20 / Episode 4: - Reality Bites

Artie Kramer: It *is* reality TV.
Executive A.D.A. Michael Cutter: It's *called* reality anyway.
20x02 - Just A Girl In The World Season 20 / Episode 2: - Just A Girl In The World

Executive A.D.A. Michael Cutter: Little Orphan Annie doesn't have anything on you, Ms. Kim.
19x08 - Chattel Season 19 / Episode 8: - Chattel

D.A. Jack McCoy: Eight and a half million, that's how many children are sold into slavery each year.
Lt. Anita Van Buren: Well this plantation has closed.
19x08 - Chattel Season 19 / Episode 8: - Chattel

Executive A.D.A. Michael Cutter: Jack, meet the Johnsons. Among other things they're being charged with murder.
Detective Cyrus Lupo: [to the Johnsons] Let's go say hi to some of your friends. [takes them to a cell]
19x08 - Chattel Season 19 / Episode 8: - Chattel

Detective Kevin Bernard: [to a Haitian girl] Come on sweetheart, it's alright, your working days are over.
19x08 - Chattel Season 19 / Episode 8: - Chattel

Executive A.D.A. Michael Cutter: An A misdemeanor? I'm quaking in my boots, Jack.
19x04 - Falling Season 19 / Episode 4: - Falling

Detective Cyrus Lupo: [Looking at financial records] 'Who needs math?' I told my teachers, 'I'm gonna be a cop.'
Detective Kevin Bernard: Don't feel bad. I said the same thing about biology. Now I spend half my life looking at autopsies.
19x04 - Falling Season 19 / Episode 4: - Falling

Eddie O'Connor: I spent 20 years watching guys take bribes. And get promoted while doing it. That's not me.
Detective Cyrus Lupo: Right. You is the guy that took bribes but never made it to supervisor.
19x04 - Falling Season 19 / Episode 4: - Falling

Detective Cyrus Lupo: Faxes from the city inspector approving the night shifts, the heavier loads.
Detective Kevin Bernard: Check this out. The number that this was faxed from doesn't match the number on the cover sheet.
Detective Cyrus Lupo: 631 area code. A city inspector faxing from the Hamptons on a weekday afternoon.
Detective Cyrus Lupo: Nice work if you can get it.
19x04 - Falling Season 19 / Episode 4: - Falling

Lt. Anita Van Buren: The forensic accountant is very anxious to talk to you.
Detective Cyrus Lupo: Great. After a morning of forensic engineering, nothing beats a little forensic accounting.
19x04 - Falling Season 19 / Episode 4: - Falling

Detective Cyrus Lupo: We're homicide with the 27.
Wayne Hardy: Homicide? What do we need homicide detectives for?
Detective Kevin Bernard: [Indicates Carlos Lazaro's dead body] You don't, but he does. And until we know happened, sir, this is a crime scene.
19x02 - Challenged Season 19 / Episode 2: - Challenged

A.D.A. Connie Rubirosa: What kind of pathological prosecutor would actually charge him? [Cutter slowly raises his hand]
19x01 - Rumble Season 19 / Episode 1: - Rumble

Female Reporter: Mr. McCoy! We hear you've been asked to join the Obama administration?
19x01 - Rumble Season 19 / Episode 1: - Rumble

D.A. Jack McCoy: Even though the terrorism charges were dropped, this plea bargain is a just and fair resolution of a case that was controversial and hard fought. In the end, the people of our city will rest easier knowing that mob violence will not be tolerated and justice will prevail over those who engage in it.
Throng of Reporters: [clamoring for attention] Mr. McCoy! Mr. McCoy! Mr. McCoy!
D.A. Jack McCoy: [placing his hand on Cutter's shoulder] I'd also like to express my gratitude to Assistant District Attorney Michael Cutter, who tried this case...


D.A. Jack McCoy: ...and brought sense...


D.A. Jack McCoy: ...and reason to bear on the outcome.




D.A. Jack McCoy: Thank you.
18x16 - Strike Season 18 / Episode 16: - Strike

Det. Cyrus Lupo: [examining pictures of the body at the morgue] What is this crud in his wounds?
Medical Examiner Elizabeth Rodgers: Automotive grease and sand.
Det. Cyrus Lupo: Sand? What kind of sand?
Medical Examiner Elizabeth Rodgers: Sand sand.


Medical Examiner Elizabeth Rodgers: I'll find out.
Det. Cyrus Lupo: I learned in the Middle East there are more than 31 flavors of sand...
18x12 - Submission Season 18 / Episode 12: - Submission

Det. Ed Green: You sure this is kosher? Because we got a search warrant for body parts.
A.D.A. Connie Rubirosa: So, look for body parts. Start with Carlin's day planner.
Det. Ed Green: No fingers between the pages.
18x12 - Submission Season 18 / Episode 12: - Submission

Executive A.D.A. Michael Cutter: [to Jack, watching a video] The stuff on the tape before this part, you're not old enough to see.
18x11 - Betrayal Season 18 / Episode 11: - Betrayal

Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: That hurt, Jack.
D.A. Jack McCoy: I warned you.
Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: You betrayed a confidence.
D.A. Jack McCoy: You went to bat for a woman who shot her husband in cold blood and who would have killed anybody else she found in his office. If I had to betray a confidence to ensure she goes to jail... so be it. These are the rules we live by.
Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: This isn't your finest hour, Jack.
D.A. Jack McCoy: Nor yours.
18x08 - Illegal Season 18 / Episode 8: - Illegal

A.D.A. Josh Lethem: So... there it is. some of us were wondering how long it'd take the real Jack McCoy to rear his shaggy, hippy liberal head. You know, when Arthur left the Attorney General told me he wanted me sitting in that chair.
D.A. Jack McCoy: And the mayor wanted somebody else... But I was the guy next in line for the job. This way, everybody's hands are clean... And I dont have to grind anybody's axe.
A.D.A. Josh Lethem: Except your own.
D.A. Jack McCoy: Josh, I think you've said enough.
A.D.A. Josh Lethem: It's too much power for you, Jack. You can't be trusted.
D.A. Jack McCoy: If you really believe that you shouldn't be working for me. You can resign or I can fire you. Either way, clean out your desk tonight. You're done here.
18x08 - Illegal Season 18 / Episode 8: - Illegal

D.A. Jack McCoy: Now I know why Adam Schiff was so grumpy.
18x08 - Illegal Season 18 / Episode 8: - Illegal

D.A. Jack McCoy: What an idiot! Where did I get the idea I could do this job without the politics and stay above the fray?
18x03 - Misbegotten Season 18 / Episode 3: - Misbegotten

D.A. Jack McCoy: I hear Pandora's Box slowly creaking open.
18x02 - Darkness Season 18 / Episode 2: - Darkness

D.A. Jack McCoy: What do you do for recreation Mike, juggle chainsaws with my neck on the line?