Law & Order (TV Series)

Golden Years (1994)

Michael Moriarty: Executive ADA Ben Stone

Quotes 

• Adam Schiff : Young people get impatient with old people. Especially cantankerous ones.

  Ben Stone : Oh yeah? Speaking from personal experience?

  Adam Schiff : I'm a sweetheart. And I'm middle aged.

• Ben Stone : Starvation is a natural cause in Somalia. In New York, it's murder two.

• Danielle Melnick : [to a witness]  You were scheduled to be deported, were you not? But in exchange for your testimony...

  Ben Stone : Objection! That's a lie!

  Judge Margaret Barry : Approach.

  [They do] 

  Judge Margaret Barry : All questions of fact will be for the jury to decide, Mister Stone.

  Ben Stone : If I'm slandered, Your Honor, I have to defend myself.

  Judge Margaret Barry : Ms. Melnick, any remarks which further provoke Mr. Stone will also provoke me - and you will regret it.

• Adam Schiff : You and the girl's lawyer want to pressure her into pleading to a lesser charge that she might *not* be guilty of so she won't be convicted of a more serious charge that she *might* be guilty of? Does that make sense?

  Ben Stone : With our system and imperfect knowledge? Yes.