“We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win.”
Tim Blake Nelson - Danny Dalton

“The law means everything to me and if any arm of the law is corrupt nothing can work, nothing. It is simple as that.”
James Tolkan - Assistant U.S. Atty. George Polito

“Our society cannot condone men who take the law into their own hands.”
Kevin Spacey - D.A. Rufus Buckley

The law has a name for what you people are planning. It's called "private justice". And private justice is about a step and a half away from lynch mobs and hang ropes. Now I may be no J. Edgar Hoover, but I am the law in Tarker's Mills. I want all you people to go home.

Terry O'Quinn - Sheriff Joe Haller

“- Ray: I found him.
- Claire: How did you find him?
- Ray: Online, 696,000 caucasian males in the US prison system. You can cycle through the entire population in a year if you look at 1,906 faces every night. So I did.
- Jess: For a year?
- Ray: For 13 years... Reopen that case!”
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Ray Kasten
Nicole Kidman - Claire Sloane
Julia Roberts - Jessica Cobb