- Cyrus Beene: You took a bullet to the head not too long ago. And one of the possible side effects of an injury to the, I think it's called the prefrontal cortex, is recklessness, a predilection for making bold declarations Declarations like, "I want to torpedo my political career - by divorcing my wife."
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Cyrus...
- Cyrus Beene: Another common side effect is delusion. Maybe you're having that. One hell of a grade A delusion that makes you believe that while in office you could divorce your nine-months-pregnant wife and what? Kick her out of the White House and move in your mistress? No, you can't think that, because we're not French. Marry your mistress? Now, Liv is a lovely, smart woman. I can't get enough of her. But she is not exactly a hue that most of your Republican constituents would be happy about, even if they could get past the divorcing and the cheating and the abandoning of America's baby. It concerns me, sir, how big your delusion is.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Here's what's great about having someone attempt to assassinate you. You're being rushed somewhere on a gurney, and doctors are yelling, and blood is pouring out of you, and you could die. And you suddenly *stop* being afraid, of anything, or anyone. And when you don't die, when you miraculously live, you realize that you have nothing to lose, and no time to waste. I am *going* to divorce Mellie, and I am going to remain President of the United States after I do so. That is today's big idea. That's my job. Do your job. Work out the details. Make it happen.
- Mellie Grant: You're supposed to hate the woman. Isn't that the standard trope? The seductress, the slut, the tramp who led your man astray. And I do. I loathe Olivia Pope. But it's a boring sort of hate. Uninteresting, cliche. It's hard to even get my back into it. But Fitz? I found him. I cleaned him up after that monster who raised him damaged his spirit. I am the one who told him he was someone. I am the one who cheered him on and listened to him ramble about his hopes and his dreams. I am the one who focused him. I did all the work! I did all the work, and now she gets to reap the benefits? No. No! I made him. He exists because I say he exists!
- Cyrus Beene: How are you not wanting to rain vengeance down upon that man?
- Olivia Pope: I'm more interested in justice!
- Cyrus Beene: Justice is for regular people. Justice is for fatty in Ohio, folding their laundry and drinking their beers. We are not regular people.
- Olivia Pope: We are. We're the people. And if we're not, we should be, because that's what it means, "we the people." It means all of us.
- Edison Davis: [talking to Olivia's colleagues] She won't get out of bed. She won't tell me why. She doesn't want anything to do with anyone. I can't help her. She won't let me help her. I don't know what to Look she doesn't talk to me the way that she talks to you. You're her family. You see her every day. You know her. You understand her. So, please, talk to her. Help her. I have to go. I should be on the floor of the Senate right now...
- Quinn Perkins: I think we found our next client.
- [first lines]
- Clerk: [talking to constituents] We are very excited and proud to be the first county in the state of Ohio to use brand-new touch-screen voting. Before the polls open tomorrow morning, we will insert these memory cards into the machines. They will store and tabulate the votes. No paper ballots to be collected this year. Now, that's progress. All right, everybody. Now I'm going to show you over to the polling place so we can demonstrate the voting machine, and how it's used.
- Clerk: [as the group walks away the machine is switched] The software has been tested all the time. We don't anticipate any problems...
- Olivia Pope: Huck, you have to stop killing people.
- Huck: Why? It solves the problem.
- Olivia Pope: You know why.
- Huck: Because killing people is wrong? In certain circles, that's not true, you know.
- Olivia Pope: In this circle, in *our* circle, it's wrong. I need you to learn that. I'm not always gonna be around.
- Olivia Pope: Hollis should be brought to justice.
- Cyrus Beene: And if what we did gets out?
- Olivia Pope: Then it gets out, and *we're* brought to justice.
- Cyrus Beene: You're willing to bring down the whole Republic because you feel guilty. You know what our electoral process is! It's magical! It's like believing in Santa, or the Tooth Fairy, or the Easter Bunny. Magical, as long as they believe. What you're doing is telling the people that the shiny presents and the bulging stockings on Christmas morning are just mom and dad staying up all night to do the work. You're telling them *we're* Santa, *we're* the Easter Bunny, *we're* the Tooth Fairy. You're taking the magic away! You're ruining Christmas morning, and the whole Republic is gonna come crumbling down because you're not tough enough to do what needs to be done!
- Olivia Pope: Get your house in order, Cyrus, and hire a lawyer.
- Huck: I need your bank account.
- Becky Flynn: What bank account?
- Huck: The bank account you keep your money in.
- Becky Flynn: So you can find out who paid me? Pass.
- Huck: No, so I can hire you a lawyer.
- Becky Flynn: This coming from the man who set me up.
- Huck: That was business.
- Becky Flynn: Please. You hate me with every bone in your body.
- Huck: No.
- Becky Flynn: I killed your family, Huck. How could you not?
- Huck: Because I cast the first stone.