- [first lines]
- Olivia Pope: [about a lull in dinner conversion] What?
- Rowan Pope: It's just astonishing, that's all. We're almost finished with dessert, and you haven't once accused me of any crimes against humanity. I think we're making progress. No?
- [chuckles]
- Olivia Pope: You know what I've learned? I've learned that accusing you of things means nothing. It leads to power games and moves and you making my friends kill people. So instead of speaking my mind, instead of being the brave, outspoken girl my mother taught me to be, I'm chewing my food, fulfilling my contract. And when we're done, I'll go home and immediately try to forget this ever happened. Until next Sunday, when we do it all again.
- Rowan Pope: How fascinating, that you think *that's* your mother's legacy, being brave and outspoken, when everything you've become, everything you are, is clearly because of me.
- Olivia Pope: I think you mean in spite of you.
- Rowan Pope: Two sides of the same coin, my dear.
- [receiving the check]
- Rowan Pope: Thank you. As for making your friends kill people, that's something Huck brought on himself. He leaves *me* alone, I'll leave *him* alone. Jake, too.
- Leo Bergen: Cy, I don't care about his problems. I care about optics, how he looks. The man looks unhappy. He looks beleaguered. He looks like hasn't had a good - Ma'am, I apologize - screw in a long time. He looks like a loser. Your guy's heart isn't in it. He's gonna lose. Don't get me wrong. I appreciate the big show, the invitation to the oval office. But as hallowed as this office is, right now it smells like desperation. Like losing. It smells like Nixon in '74 in here. I don't do losers.
- Ethan: [on the phone] Sir, please say something. I can hear you breathing, sir.
- Cyrus Beene: Yes, I am breathing, Ethan. I am breathing very deeply, because I am trying my very best not to have another heart attack.
- Ethan: I'm so sorry. She has people here.
- Cyrus Beene: Who?
- Ethan: We got Pope'd, sir.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: How do I get rid of B-613? I want them gone.
- Cyrus Beene: Don't... Sir...
- [whisks him over to the fireplace and continues in whispers]
- Cyrus Beene: Okay, don't ever say that again. That is impossible, Mr. President.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Nothing is impossible. What if we eliminated their budget?
- Cyrus Beene: A few years ago, this guy at the OMB comes across a very, very strange line item in the federal budget. It's been there for years, but no one's ever mentioned it until this one person, this one man points it out.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: And what happened?
- Cyrus Beene: He committed suicide. That's how they took care of it, and that's how they'll take care of us if they start to see us as enemies. Only in your case, it won't be suicide. It'll be a lone-gunman on a grassy knoll. Just ask Kennedy. This is something you can't control, Mr. President. What you *can* control is winning re-election. That's what I'm focused on, and if you're smart, you'll focus on that, too.
- Olivia Pope: [after admitting her teen pregnancy on national television] Candace You handled that beautifully.
- Congresswoman Josephine Marcus: I just destroyed the most important relationship in my life. I'm glad you found that beautiful. You're fired.
- Leo Bergen: Madame vice President. Is the ladies' room packed as usual? That's not fair. Please feel free.
- [motions toward the other urinals]
- Sally Langston: I'm not here to urinate...
- President Fitzgerald Grant: [his opening joke at the annual gala] I can't tell you how much I relish this opportunity to finally say something to you all that has been long, long overdue. "You're welcome."
- [eruption of laughter]
- President Fitzgerald Grant: [continuing his gala speech] As you all know, I'm running for re-election.
- [applause]
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Thank you. And out on the campaign trail, at every step of the way, the first lady will be by my side. And believe me, I mean by - my - side.
- Huck: Two things make a coincidence. Three things make a conspiracy.
- Jake Ballard: What's the third thing?
- Huck: The passenger list. Fifth name from the top.
- Jake Ballard: [reads] "Maya Lewis."
- Huck: She never took her husband's name.
- Jake Ballard: What was her husband's name?
- Huck: "Pope."
- Jake Ballard: No!
- Huck: Liv's mom...
- Olivia Pope: [Huck and Jake now at her door] What?