Diane: You know sometimes I look at you and I wonder if you've changed or if you were always this way.
Alicia: I had some of the best teachers in the world. I couldn't help but change.

Alicia: What do you need?
Marilyn: I just need to take your firm through a short PowerPoint on the ethical rules of start-ups.

David Gross: Okay guys, thanks, but, um... I'm not going with you.
Alicia: Why not?
David Gross: Because of you. The Governorship should work for me, not against me. You're husband, mam, has promised the most ethical administration in Illinois history. I can't have my law firm jumping at every ethical shadow that comes down the pike.
Alicia: We won't.
David Gross: You, you will. It's the way the world works. Politics leads, the law follows. But, uh, thank you. And, I wish you the best of luck with your new firm.
Cary Z: What just happened?
Alicia: Our firm just went down the drain.

We're coming after you. All your clients. Every single one we worked to make happy while you swept in at the last minute to take credit. We're taking them And then you know what you'll have? A very nice suite of offices.

Alicia: I need your help. You were talking about the cloud at my work. Files being saved up to the cloud.
Zach: Did you maybe put it you room or something?
Alicia: Do me a favor, I need all my company contacts saved from my company cloud to my cloud, my personal cloud. Can you do that?
Zach: Mom, you have no idea what any of those words mean, do you? I have chemistry. Can this wait?
Alicia: No, unfortunately not. Someone's trying to block me and I need this now. Do you need the password?

Will: I took you in. I hired you. I pushed for you.
Alicia: Will, this was a business decision.
Will: You were poison!

Alicia: We need to leave this week.
Cary: Are you sure?
Alicia: Yes.

Grace: I want to be pretty. Just let me be pretty.
Alicia: Oh honey, you are pretty.
Grace: You have to say that. I want other people to think I'm pretty.

Cary: Alicia, staying is a mistake. You'll always be under Will.You finally have a chance to get out from under him.
Alicia: Managing Partner is not under him.
Cary: It is. Why do you think he's offering it to you? He wants someone that he can influence, someone that he knows.
Alicia: OK. Thanks Cary.
Cary: Alicia, this is your chance. Take it.

Will: I can't decide this by myself, but I can sway most of the partners, and I think you'll enjoy a honeymoon period as the Governor's wife.
Alicia: Uh...OK. I..I'm not...
Will: I want you to consider replacing Diane as managing partner.

Alicia: What's going on?
Will: Diane.

Alicia: I'm gonna start drinking.
Veronica: Pour me one, too!

Good Wife Quotes

Cary: How are things in the bar attorney trenches?
Alicia: Same as there only without the fees, resources or muffins.

There is a mutiny brewing below deck and we are going to start losing good, young associates because of him.

Cary