Scandal

Scandal Quotes (Page 8)

Season 2 Episode 10: "One for the Dog"

Mellie: How are you holding up?
Olivia: Me? I'm fine.
Mellie: It's not easy living a lie, pretending everything's perfect when it's not. I learned that lesson a while ago. I keep asking myself, what am I going to do? I mean, I can keep the stories going for so long until...What if he never wakes? What am I gonna do? What are you going to do? Do you ever ask wonder that? What you're gonna do without him?
 • Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Sally: [to Olivia] Leap of faith? It's swallowing tacks and expecting to puke up a unicorn.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Hollis: [to Sally] In a game of Texas Hold 'Em, and that's all that life ever really is, you never want to tip your hand. So get someone else to do your bidding.
 • Rating: Unrated

Harrison: There's a whole other layer of D.C., you know, where real politics happen. Where decisions are made. Not about democracy or the flag, but power. This is about things that go bump in the night. Stuff that regular Americans never hear about. This is the real deal. We don't question Liv on this.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Harrison: We're out of our depth. Liv runs with the big dogs. And you know, I'm starting to think...
Abby: What?
Harrison: Liv worked in the White House. The President was shot. Huck's in jail for doing it. One of the richest men--Hollis Doyle--might be behind it. This is next level stuff. Grassy knoll-level stuff.
 • Rating: Unrated

Pat: [to David] No one wants to see you succeed more than I do, but you can't just talk about wearing the white hat. You can't just fight the good fight. We live in the real world. Remember that.
 • Rating: Unrated

Pat: I just wanted to see how things were going.
David: I can't tell you because telling you would be a violation of the Patriot Act and I might end up in the basement of the Pentagon being beaten and then waterboarded to within an inch of my life. Not that that ever happens.
 • Rating: Unrated

Mellie: [to Cyrus and Olivia] We all got in bed with the Devil together and nobody wants to go to Federal prison. So I wrote a letter and I signed it. I broke the law. I broke the Constitution. And I would do it again.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Mellie: [to Cyrus and Olivia] Because we let that snake, Hollis, play in our garden for so long we can't turn him in to the Feds, or turn him over to the cops, or to the courts and wait for justice to be served. Because we have to protect Fitz. We have to protect secrets.
 • Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Mellie: [to Cyrus and Olivia] I can sign Fitz's signature in my sleep. I can do it perfectly. I've been doing it since he was governor. But I did not sign this paper lightly. I did not sign this without using my head. I'm not some man reacting out of rage and then thinking later. I am a woman. So I thought about it. And I made my decision.
 • Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

Olivia: Do you understand that we live in a democracy? With laws and rules and civil discourse? This is not Nicaragua. You can't just--
Cyrus: What, steal the White House? Yes, we can. It's been done before. Will be done again.
 • Rating: Unrated

David: I'm a US Attorney, gentlemen. I represent the United States of America. The United States of America is in this room. So you need to watch how you treat the prisoner on American soil.
 • Rating: Unrated

Season 2 Episode 9: "Blown Away"

Olivia: What's the charge?
Agent: This man is being held under the Patriot Act.
 • Rating: Unrated

Cyrus: A baby was born at County General this evening at 5:42 p.m. A girl, 5 pounds 11 ounces. She's ours. She's our daughter. We can bring her home in a week if you say yes.
James: You stole a baby?
Cyrus: I did not--
James: You bought a baby?
Cyrus: I pulled some strings and got us to the front of the line. It wasn't that hard, just a well-placed phone call, which is wrong. Very wrong. But like I said, I'm a Republican overlord and your dream is a baby, so...and now you're thinking 'why now' when I didn't want a baby before. Why now? Someone shot my best friend. He's lying in a hospital bed dying. Which makes me denying us a chance to start a family seem ludicrous. So there's a baby girl in County General, and if you say yes, in one week, she could be our daughter. We could be her fathers. If you say yes.
James: Yes.
 • Rating: Unrated

James: You set the table.
Cyrus: Amalia set the table. She's off today, but I made her come in and set the table. I'm a Republican overlord, I know.
 • Rating: Unrated

Olivia: Huck, I know you have feelings for this woman, but enough already. She doesn't love you. Turn her in.
Huck: No.
Olivia: Huck, this isn't just about you anymore. It's about a man lying in a hospital bed because your girlfriend shot him in the head. A woman who's clearly using you to protect herself, and if you can't see that, you're blind.
Huck: Don't touch me. Do I tell you who to love? No. So don't tell me.
 • Rating: Unrated

Olivia: She got to you, didn't she?
Huck: No.
Olivia: She did. You found her and she got to you. Huck, she shot the President. Not just that, she shot the president and she framed you for it.
Huck: She was doing her job.
 • Rating: Unrated

Huck: [to Olivia] I promised I would say goodbye.
 • Rating: Unrated

Huck: I'll leave with you.
Becky: Really?
Huck: We're the same. We're built the same. I love you.
Becky: I love you, too.
 • Rating: Unrated

Verna: You know, I've been seeing pictures of that fellow wearing the red hoodie all day. He looks a lot like Huck.
Olivia: Huh.
Verna: Like I said, karma's a funny thing.
 • Rating: Unrated

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