Law & Order (TV Series)

Night & Fog (1993)

Steven Hill: DA Adam Schiff

Quotes 

• D.A. Adam Schiff : A woman was murdered in our jurisdiction. That's our only priority.

  Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone : So we shield him?... Poland is not entitled to punish him for the greater evil?

  D.A. Adam Schiff : Greater evil? Since when did you get so philosophical? This office doesn't care about Poles, or Nazis, any more than it does about Serbs or Croats. We're not in the evil business; we're in the crime business.

  Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone : Adam, I may be wrong, but... I thought, of all people, you would want...

  D.A. Adam Schiff : The man killed his wife? Try him; convict him. That's all I want.

• [last lines] 

  Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone : They beat you, they starve you; makes me wonder what I would have done.

  D.A. Adam Schiff : There's no Supreme Court of Ethics, my friend. Sometimes the only yardstick is: Can you look yourself in the mirror, the day after?

  Paul Robinette : Well, what about Mara? By insisting we seal the files, she was still protecting her father.

  Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone : She wasn't protecting her father. She was protecting her son.