Boston Legal Season 2 Episode 6

Alan: I don't presume to know whether this is a good war or not, Denny. But there can be no dispute it's a complex one, one that we as a citizenry, as patriots, need to be talking about.
Denny: Here's all you need to know, put me in charge. I'll win the damn thing.
Alan: No doubt. Do you think the army would let two flamingos enlist?
Denny: Don't ask, don't tell.

Alan: (after losing the case) I hope at least somebody heard your screams.
Cassie: If not, then maybe they heard yours. Thank you.

Alan: Private Elliot was for the war. Personally, I was against it. Then I was for it. Then I was against it again. But that's just me. I'm a flip-flopper.

Shirley: Let me read you something by Martin Niemoeller, a German pastor who opposed the Nazis. "In Germany, they came first for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time, there was no one left to speak up."

Denise: It's just, though they are together for the purpose of this motion, they're not so much together. And I think having two lawyers, in case there are conflicts.
Shirley: Yes, and you think the senior partner of the firm should be doing this because...
Denise: It'll be fun. Plus, you promised I'd get to try cases with you.

Judge Resnick: Halloween is a secular holiday. More importantly, it's a silly holiday... Children don't see a witch as a symbol of any sort. A witch is just something to enjoy being afraid of. Motion by the plaintiffs is denied. The Halloween pageant will go on as it always has. And I advise both parties to lighten up and remember what Halloween really is all about. The candy!

Alan: We currently have no strategy to fight this war. We have no timetable for getting out. Some of these troops could be extended 20-plus years. Their mothers and fathers have to spring for body armor because the army doesn't, and they're getting killed! And we, as a nation in denial, are letting them. We simply don't seem to care. Well, she does. (points to Cassie) She's in this courtroom honoring one dead soldier. That's a start.

Shirley: At what point does a religion become silly enough that it's okay to make fun of them? And who decides?

Sergeant Jason Hendler (on the witness stand): We're at war, Mr. Shore. We need soldiers.

Denny: (to Alan) I can't look at you right now.

Cassie: I don't want to have sex with you anymore.
Garrett: Yeah. Well, as it turns out, as my client, I'm not supposed to have sex with you anyway.
Cassie: So there we are.
Garrett: There we are.

Denny: Drop the case. Do it now.
Alan: I'm not dropping it, Denny.
Denny: Alan? I'm senior partner. I'm asking you, check that, I'm directing you. Drop it.
Alan: No.

Denny: Most of the Cranes in my family were flamingos.

Alan: What are you thinking about? It's not a trick question.
Denny: Can I have a solitary, pensive moment? Keep a thought to myself?
Alan (laughing): You forgot what you were thinking.

(Denny walks into costume party wearing the same flamingo costume as Alan.)
Denny: Tried it on. Looked good. Kept it on. Doesn't mean I forgive you.
Alan: Got it. Denny, you look pretty in pink.
Denny: Not having sex with you.
Alan: Just the same.

Bob Matthias: What are you going to do, turn me into a toad?
Sam Sawtell: We don't do hexes!
(Punches Bob Matthias in the mouth.)
Sam Sawtell: We do throw punches, occasionally.

Denny: I prefer to be alone. Please leave.
Alan: Why?
Denny: No reason.
Alan: If you were to guess at a reason.
Denny: If I were to guess, I'd say maybe I don't want to socialize with a pinko, liberal, Democrat commie.
Alan: Ahh.

Denny: Alan, I've loved you like a...
Alan: Sister?
Denny: We're Americans. To be critical in a time of war... even the Democrats are smart enough to keep their mouths shut on this.

Brad: Don't you two have anything else to do?
Garrett: We're discussing a case, sir.
Brad: It's not a case. It's an abuse of the judicial process.
Garrett: Yes,... we're discussing that.