“Most people respect the badge. Everyone respects the gun.”
Robert De Niro - Turk

“You don't become a cop because you want to serve and protect. You join the force because they let you carry a gun and a badge. You do it because you get respect.”
Robert De Niro - Turk

“- Lady Margaret Carstairs: I shall report you both to Scotland Yard.
- Inspector Lestrade: ...But I am Scotland Yard.”
Mary Forbes - Lady Margaret Carstairs
Dennis Hoey - Inspector Lestrade

“- Prof. William Kilbane: You come pounding on this door again and I'll have the law on you.
- Inspector Lestrade: I am the law.
- Prof. William Kilbane: Then stop barging in and out of my room like a chambermaid.”
Frederick Worlock - Prof. William Kilbane
Dennis Hoey - Inspector Lestrade

“Three cops for a councilman's son, but no one for this dead girl.”
Barbara Gehring - Lt. 'Hawk' Hawkins