- David Rosen: Why don't you start By telling me how you know Gideon Wallace?
- Harrison Wright: You don't have to answer that.
- David Rosen: All right. Why were you at Gideon Wallace's apartment?
- Harrison Wright: You don't have to answer that.
- David Rosen: Okay, fine, we'll start with the basics. Quinn, state your name for the record.
- Harrison Wright: You don't have to answer that.
- David Rosen: Here I thought your boss was the biggest pain in the ass in DC. Speak of the devil...
- Olivia Pope: [door opens] David, new shirt? I like it.
- Cyrus Beene: [about Fitz as he views his favorite Whitehouse painting] Alexander Hamilton - as brilliant a political thinker as any man or woman who has ever walked these halls. But he wasn't the president. Washington was the president. He was the winner. But Hamilton could pick a winner. He knew who the country needed when they needed it. I don't doubt that he could do it, live the normal life he's always wanted. Walk the dog, mow the lawn. A simple life, a happy life. For most people, that's fine. It's all they need. For him, it's a waste of talent, of potential.
- [sighs]
- Cyrus Beene: That man was born to be a leader. He was born to do this. Anything less would diminish him and deprive this country. He can talk all he wants about a regular life. Some men aren't meant to be happy. They're meant to be great.
- Morris Elcott: Ms. Pope, you did it again. The president has a great team.
- Olivia Pope: Nah.
- Morris Elcott: Don't give me that. Listen, I don't exactly know what you do, or how you do it, but when you walk through these gates, things start happening. The press starts falling in line, the Secret Service gets extra secret, and the problems - they just kinda disappear. And when you go back out, everyone's breathing a little bit easier.
- [last lines]
- David Rosen: [walking in with Quinn] I ran her prints. Don't worry. I did it myself, which is a good thing, because otherwise there would be about half a dozen US Agencies looking for her. I'm breaking the law bringing her here. I don't break the law, Olivia.
- Olivia Pope: [to Quinn] Do you want to tell them who you are, or should I?
- [first lines]
- Quinn Perkins: [choking and gasping sounds as she enters her apartment] Okay, not only are you super-cute, and have a great address, but you have literally the nicest people working in your bagel shop that I have ever...
- [runs over to Gideon who is choking on the floor]
- Quinn Perkins: No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!
- Cyrus Beene: The whole thing was off the table. At least until last night.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Last night?
- Cyrus Beene: Yeah, last night, when I went looking For the President of the United States, and found out that he was at his girlfriend's house.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Here it comes. Cyrus the holy.
- Abby Whelan: Okay, if we're doing this
- [sighs]
- Abby Whelan: we're destroying all the evidence. You realize what this means, Liv?
- Harrison Wright: I've been to prison, and I'm not going back.
- Huck: You were in prison for three days.
- Harrison Wright: It was prison!
- Mellie Grant: Walk outside. Tell the press you never touched her, You don't even know which girl they're talking about.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: That would be a lie.
- Mellie Grant: Then lie!
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I can't.
- Mellie Grant: Why the hell not?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Because I'm not you, Mellie.
- Olivia Pope: I'm so sorry.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I'm not.
- [chuckles]
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I'm not. A man who isn't president has options. A man who isn't president can divorce his wife.
- Olivia Pope: Fitz...
- President Fitzgerald Grant: A man who isn't president can have a life... The life he wants. The life he's always wanted with the woman he loves.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Who are you right now?
- Olivia Pope: The woman who got you elected. So go be the man I voted for.
- Olivia Pope: Lean forward during the denials of the affair, And keep your eyes on mellie when she's talking.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I know how to fake it with my wife. You taught me well.