- Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: Think this through with me, okay? All blacks are to be excluded from identifying whites, and vice versa? That's a license for interracial homicide.
- Tom Morrison: Excuse me, Lorenzo de' Medici. Now who made you the great arbiter of justice?
- Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: A Chinese guy could blow you away and get off scot-free because of cross-racial identification. And that's the most comforting thought I've had all day.
- Judge Morris Torledsky: [following both defendants' "not guilty" pleas] Life is beautiful. All God's children are innocent.
- Claire Kincaid: Cooper divorces her, she's on the next plane to Moscow. You know what Immigration thinks of green card marriages. She could wait five years for another chance.
- Lennie Briscoe: Yeah. This broad's had a taste of Zabar's. There's no way she's gonna go back to waiting in line for day-old borscht.