Stevie: Do you want a drink?
Dmitri: Um, no, I don't. Just a club soda.
Stevie: A Russian who doesn't drink?
Dmitri: Yeah. That's, uh, that's why they kicked me out.

Both my parents work for the government, so if I avoided everyone that they work with, I would have to leave town to date and...just live life in general.

Stevie

Mexico is our neighbor, and one of our most reliable allies and trade partners. We can't just force them into rooting out corruption. It's like having a best friend who won't stop robbing banks.

Elizabeth

Elizabeth: Usually, those private sector guys, they hate working with the government.
Kat: Tell me about it. So, I facebooked Fisk. Found he's deep into Neal Stephenson.
Elizabeth: That doesn't ring a bell.
Kat: Yeah, no, sci-fi author. He wrote Cryptonomicon. Anathem? Um, Seveneves? Wow, still no bells. Okay. Now I know your Christmas gift.

We have been in this relationship for years. It's time I met your parents, Blake.

Elizabeth

My parents are private sector people. They... To their mind, leaving finance to go work for the government was like blasting a fire hose full of money off a cliff into the abyss.

Blake

Blake: My parents are flying into DC tomorrow.
Elizabeth: Ooh, yeah, that's always a little challenging.
Blake: Look, I love them more than anyone in the world. It's just...oh, sometimes they make me so mad I want to rip the skin off my own face.

Elizabeth: Are you okay?
Blake: Yes, why?
Elizabeth: Well, your blazer is unbuttoned.

Dalton: Do you know how many American servicemen died in Vietnam, Bess?
Elizabeth: Uh, 58,000?
Dalton: 58,220. In a war that lasted more than ten years. Do you know how many Americans died of drug overdoses last year?
Elizabeth: Well...
Dalton: 64,000. Mostly from opioids. It's the worst public health crisis in a century.

Elizabeth: What's this?
Matt: Just a little something to celebrate the successful launch of the Permafrost Protection Project. I thought popsicles were appropriate than champagne.
Jay: Could've gotten champagne popsicles.
Matt: Does that exist?
Jay: If it doesn't, it should.

Henry: Well, you know, I thought I'd, just, do the basics, risk of pregnancy, STDs --
Elizabeth: Not letting yourself get pressured into anything you're not ready for, giving and getting consent.

Elizabeth: Sixteen is too young. He's not ready. We need to have the talk.
Henry: We already did. We already talked to him.
Elizabeth: No, that was the kids version. We need to get the NC-17 version, with the warnings and the fear.

Madam Secretary Quotes

I won't say the David Bowie thing.

Henry

Elizabeth: When he says it's my call, what does he mean by that?
Russell: He means it's your ass.