Spotlight * Quotes

"This city, these people... making the rest of us feel like we don't belong. But they're no better than us. Look at how they treat their children. Mark my words, Mr. Rezendes. If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one."

"Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around. I can't speak to what happened before I arrived, but all of you have done some very good reporting here. Reporting that I believe is going to have an immediate and considerable impact on our readers. For me, this kind of story is why we do this."

"If we don't rush to print, somebody else is going to find these letters and butcher this story."

"They say it's just physical abuse but it's more than that, this was spiritual abuse. You know why I went along with everything? Because priests, are supposed to be the good guys."

Mike Rezendes: "Mitch, are you telling me that the Catholic Church removed legal documents from that courthouse?"
Mitchell Garabedian: "Look, I'm not crazy, I'm not paranoid. I'm experienced. Check the docket. You'll see. They control everything."

Jim Sullivan: "I was doing my job."
Walter 'Robby' Robinson: "Yeah, you and everyone else."

"We got two stories here: a story about degenerate clergy, and a story about a bunch of lawyers turning child abuse into a cottage industry. Which story do you want us to write? Because we're writing one of them."