Law & Order (TV Series)

Thinking Makes It So (2006)

Fred Thompson: DA Arthur Branch

Quotes 

• D.A. Arthur Branch : You know I was about, six the first time I went fishing with my old man. Hell, if I didn't catch one about like that. Just getting ready to plop him down into the bucket when I started wondering some grown up things. You know about right and wrong, good and bad. That fish had never done anything to me, why should I kill him? Well, I was getting ready to toss him back and then it hit me. If I do the right thing by the fish, I'm left with nothing but a can of string beans and a stale biscuit for dinner. Well, there I stood, frozen as a popsicle, until my dad looked me in the eye and he said, "Son, there's nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." And I want to tell you, no fish ever tasted better.