Frank Galvin:
I changed my life today. What did you do?

Mickey Morrissey:
He is the prince of fucking darkness.

Frank Galvin:
You couldn't hack it as a lawyer. You were nothin' but a bag man for the boys downtown and you still are, I know about you.

Edward J. Concannon, Chief Defense Attorney:
Why wasn't she getting oxygen...?

Edward J. Concannon, Chief Defense Attorney:
Tell me one?

Edward J. Concannon, Chief Defense Attorney:
She threw up in her mask. Let's cut the bullshit. Say it: She threw up in her mask.

Judge Hoyle:
I've no sympathy for you.

Judge Hoyle:
This case should never have come to trial. But you know better. You're mister independent. You want to be independent? Be independent now. I have no sympathy for you.

Kevin Doneghy:
You guys... you guys are all the same! The doctors at the hospital, you... it's always what I'm going to do for you. And then you screw up, and it's, "Ah, we did the best that we could, I'm dreadfully sorry." And people like us live with your mistakes the rest of our lives.

Judge Hoyle:
It seems to me, a fellow's trying to come back, he'd take the settlement. I myself would take it and run like a thief.

Frank Galvin:
I'm sure you would.