- Edison Davis: [talking to reporters] Hollis Doyle is a thug. A punk. And the people who support him are thugs or punks. Or they condone his behavior. They are not Americans. The idea that this country belongs to one kind of person is the least American idea that anyone has ever had. In fact, it is the opposite of the ideals of this nation. Nothing needs to be restored. Nothing needs to be made great again. We are a better nation than we were 20 years ago. Than we were 50 years ago. Than we were 100 years ago. Than we were at our founding. That is the point of America. We are a country where we are always greater than our past. I am proud to live in a nation where a black man has a legitimate shot at the White House. That's American greatness.
- [last lines]
- Edison Davis: I'm not going to apologize. I said what had to be said.
- Rowan Pope: No apologies necessary, son. I just need to confirm what I already know. That speech was Olivia's idea. She saved you and beat me. Hmm? You're not crafty enough to execute that move on your own.
- Edison Davis: You can't hurt me.
- Rowan Pope: Luckily, I don't have to.
- Edison Davis: Listen, I am nobody's Fool.
- Jake Ballard: [pins Edison's head to his desk] I'm gonna allow you to live because Rowan may need you in the future. I would have made a fantastic Vice President. You really missed out. We would have had some fun times.
- [Rowan walks out of the room]
- Jake Ballard: [whispering now] Tell Liv I need her help. Tell her I want to escape. Tell her I'm chasing the sun.
- Susan Ross: I'm not dropping out.
- Mellie Grant: Neither am I.
- Susan Ross: Well, I'm double not dropping out.
- Mellie Grant: Did you just call doubles on not dropping out?
- Susan Ross: Yes.
- Mellie Grant: You should drop out.
- [first lines]
- BNC News Anchor Angela Raines: Oh, what a difference a week makes. After trailing his opponents in the first round of Republican primaries, Hollis Doyle has now taken the lead.
- Hollis Doyle: [responding to reporters on the street] I'm giving America back to Americans. No more of these south-of-the-border types with their greedy little hands, or these shady fellas with mustaches looking to blow up our buildings. This is our country. I aim to keep it that way.
- Quinn Perkins: [in the office] Look at them. It's like Throwback Thursday in there. A Gladiator reunion. This is good? This is so good.
- Huck: This is not good.
- Quinn Perkins: This is good. Let it be good.
- Huck: Can't let it be good if it's not good. And that is *not* good. That looks good, but that is *not* good. Trust me.
- Reporter Germain: So you didn't rape her?
- Hollis Doyle: Oh, Hollis loves him some women. And, boy, do women love them some Hollis. In all my years, not a one of them fillies ever needed an arm twist to roll in my hay.
- Aggressive Anchor: We're not just talking about free speech here. We're talking hate speech. The KKK. Will you disavow...
- Hollis Doyle: Looky here. Book and thoughts, they don't hurt people. - Well, maybe books. - But it's the politically-correct media elite that really hurts the people of this country. That's keeping all the money for their judgy, greedy, over-educated selves.
- Rowan Pope: [to Edison] You gon' be our first black president. And you're gonna get there by making everyone forget that you are black. You're going to wait - your time will come. When you are in the Oval, you can say whatever you want. Until then, stand still and hope nobody notices that this ain't no tan.
- Hollis Doyle: [on Sally's TV show] They're running out of time. It's like being a 40-year-old woman without a husband. You don't say you're desperate, but you are. In fact, to show that ol' Hollis ain't got no hard feelings, I'm gonna say right here and right now that whichever one of them gals drops out first will be my Vice President.
- Sally Langston: You can't be serious.
- Hollis Doyle: I'm as serious as a fat kid on Halloween.
- Olivia Pope: Move away from my door.
- Rowan Pope: You seem to believe that there is some finality to our relationship. There is not. I am your father. Even when I'm dead and buried, you are me.
- Hollis Doyle: Classy piece of ass, that lady. Elevates us both.
- Olivia Pope: However, we do have some serious concerns about your message. It's exclusionary, and deeply offensive.
- Hollis Doyle: Oh, hell, you don't think I believe any of that racist crap I spew out there in the boonies, do you? I'm a businessman, Livvie. Just giving the customers what they want. And you thinking I'm some kind of deep-fried cross burner 'cause I'm from south of the Mason-Dixon ain't exactly open-minded, you don't mind me saying.
- David Rosen: Susan, please, I love you. I think you're amazing.
- Susan Ross: I know that! I know I'm amazing. I'm witty and cute and funny and smarter than you. I'm incredible, David. I'm gonna change the damn world, which is why this is over. I know, but you don't. I can't be with someone who doesn't believe in me. Whether I'm the President of the United States, or some substitute teacher in suburbia somewhere, I believe in myself, and I need to be with someone who feels the same way. You can go now.
- David Rosen: [walking to the door] Cause guess what? You just got dumped by the Vice President of the United States of America, and she has work to do.
- [closes the door behind him and begins to cry]