- Mellie Grant: [exhausted from filibustering] Ohh. I can't do this. I just I can't. I don't even know why I'm doing this. I'm a republican. I just didn't like Gibson telling me what I can't do.
- Olivia Pope: You're the biggest bitch I know. Don't tell me you can't do this. Just a couple more hours, Mellie.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I hate that you're always right.
- Olivia Pope: Me too.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: We tried.
- Olivia Pope: We did.
- [first lines]
- President Fitzgerald Grant: [standing in her closet] I like that one. What's Harding's wife's name again?
- Olivia Pope: Sandy.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Sandy. She's...
- Olivia Pope: Home and garden editor at the Columbus Tribune.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: We need to pass this spending bill, Olivia.
- Olivia Pope: I know.
- Rowan Pope: I'm choosing kindness. This is a rare moment. I'm allowing you a little power here. If I were you, I would make use of it, son!
- Huck: [stops eating his burger] You are no one's father, and I am not your son. Eat your underground rail road. It's getting cold.
- Huck: Family is the only thing that has kept you alive here. Olivia is the only reason that you're alive.
- Rowan Pope: She's also the reason I'm shackled to this chair. Family is a burden.
- Charlie: [at her door] Can you believe the hardware store just leaves this stuff outside during the holidays?
- Quinn Perkins: Did you shoplift Christmas?
- Charlie: It was going in the bargain bin tomorrow anyway. So, is there room at the inn or what?