Hawaii Five-O (TV Series)

Not That Much Different (1969)

Jack Lord: Det. Steve McGarrett

Quotes 

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [to protesters]  Look, I don't feel any need to defend my position or professon, but I'd like to mention a few names. John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and before them Mahatma Gandhi. Ever heard of them?

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [to Ned]  Lesson one... Nobody is loved by everybody.

• Det. Steve McGarrett : Chinese say, "All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today." I think we got some pretty good seeds in those other kids, Danno, don't you?

• Ned Horvath : [McGarrett has just finished questioning a group of anti-war activists]  Mr. McGarrett, we've got nothing against you personally, it's just what you represent that bugs us. You do understand that?

  Det. Steve McGarrett : I'm not even going to try.

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [to Carole]  I abhor violence in any form... I think that violence breeds violence on any level.

• Det. Steve McGarrett : Look, I don't feel any need to defend my position or my profession, but I'd like to mention a few names: John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King. And before them, Mahatma Gandhi. Ever hear of them? There are dangerous animals in the world and some of them walk on two feet. They don't want peace and they're not capable of love. Society--and that means you and you and you and you--needs protection from these warped minds. And that's my job. Now, you have every right to sing about peace, march about it, write about it. But what I just told you is the way it is, unfortunately. That's why we're armed... I abhor violence in any form. I think that violence breeds violence on any level. Every war, every riot started with one individual act of violence. I'm a peace officer. Euphemism? Maybe. But I want peace more than anything else in the world.

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [about Lannie]  She didn't kill Julian.

  Danny : How can you be so sure?

  Det. Steve McGarrett : Cop instinct.