Law & Order (TV Series)

Sanctuary (1994)

Steven Hill: DA Adam Schiff

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• EADA Ben Stone : Nobody's willing to draw a line in the sand! Nobody's willing to say that the law is the law and if you break it you will be prosecuted, win, lose or draw.

  Adam Schiff : Except you.

  EADA Ben Stone : It's better to light a match than to curse the darkness.

  Adam Schiff : Even if it lights a fuse that could blow up the city?

  EADA Ben Stone : What do you want? Peace without justice?

  Adam Schiff : I'm trying to straddle a fence so that this city can heal. Can you understand that?

  EADA Ben Stone : [quietly]  Yep. I understand.

  [after a long pause] 

  EADA Ben Stone : I understand that the cure is worse than the disease.

  [goes to the door] 

  EADA Ben Stone : And that it's a solution I just can't be part of.

• EADA Ben Stone : Better to light a match than curse the darkness.

  Adam Schiff : Be careful you don't light a fuse.

• Adam Schiff : What happened to "Give me your huddled masses"? What the hell has happened to this city?

• Adam Schiff : ...after twenty years in this office, you'd think you'd have a sense of reality.

  Ben Stone : Reality? The reality is that no one is willing to draw a line in the sand. Nobody is willing to say that the law is the law. And if you break it, you will be prosecuted: win, lose or draw.

• Adam Schiff : There's a reason for the Reverend Otts of this world.

  EADA Ben Stone : To promote anti-Semitism?

  Adam Schiff : To remind us that we still have a long way to go.

• Adam Schiff : I want us to be cleaner here than Caeser's wife.