The Good German (2006)

Leland Orser: Bernie

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• Bernie Teitel : They want me to decide who the ardent Nazis were. Truth is, it was the whole country. Nobody's hands are clean.

• Bernie Teitel : This guy? Drove one of the gas vans. They'd load the Jews in back, run the exhaust inside.

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  Bernie Teitel : By the time they got where they were going, they were already dead. Very efficient. Driving to work, he killed more people than Al Capone in all his years in Chicago. But if you asked him, he isn't a murderer, he's a truck driver. And he still thinks that.

• Bernie Teitel : Nothing better for a prosecutor than a criminal with a sense of history. Everything got written down. Who they killed, and what it cost. Meticulous record-keepers.

• Bernie Teitel : Be honest with yourself for a change, Jake. Has anything good happened since you came back?

• Bernie Teitel : You've been wrong every step of the way, Jake. Why stop now?