Scandal (TV Series)

A Criminal, a Whore, an Idiot and a Liar (2013)

Jeff Perry: Cyrus Beene

Quotes 

• President Fitzgerald Grant : [rejecting his dad advice in front of everyone]  I'm just wondering if it's from his vast experience running for President. Oh wait, you never ran, did ya? 'Cause men who get caught sleeping with prostitutes don't get to be leader of the free world. Right?

  Verna Thornton : Who wants coffee?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : What was her name? Charity? No, it was Hope. Hard to forget that name. You really kept hope alive, didn't you, dad?

  Cyrus Beene : Fitz...

  President Fitzgerald Grant : No, Hope is alive. Mom's dead, though.

• Cyrus Beene : [in low tones in a hallway]  Fitz is clean. Fitz walks on water. Fitz makes the fishes and the loaves. And people like Hollis and me and you...

  Olivia Pope : [scoffs] 

  Cyrus Beene : Don't roll your eyes. You're one of us, Olivia. We march behind him. We sing his happy tune. And then we pick up our hatchets, and we chop up the judases into bloody little pieces and dance around their corpses, because that is our job. That is what we do. We take care of Fitz. And we don't do it because we are believers, which we are. We don't do it for the rush or the high or the power, which we are most certainly junkies for. We do it because Fitz can't. He can't do it. If he could do it, we wouldn't worship at his altar. People like Fitz... They go down in history. People like us, we create the history. We run this world so he can lead it.

  Olivia Pope : In order to lead it, the people have to elect him, Cyrus. The people have to find him worthy.

  Cyrus Beene : That's what I'm trying to tell you. The way this world works, the people is you and me and Hollis and Mellie and Verna. We're the people.

  Olivia Pope : Cy...

  [crouches down] 

  Cyrus Beene : No. It comes down to two questions, Olivia does he deserve to be President? And if you believe he does, do you think he can win it on his own? If you can say "yes" to both, then we'll never discuss election rigging. Ever again.

  [walks away]