Scandal (TV Series)

Truth or Consequences (2013)

Kerry Washington: Olivia Pope

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• Cyrus Beene : How are you not wanting to rain vengeance down upon that man?

  Olivia Pope : I'm more interested in justice!

  Cyrus Beene : Justice is for regular people. Justice is for fatty in Ohio, folding their laundry and drinking their beers. We are not regular people.

  Olivia Pope : We are. We're the people. And if we're not, we should be, because that's what it means, "we the people." It means all of us.

• Olivia Pope : Huck, you have to stop killing people.

  Huck : Why? It solves the problem.

  Olivia Pope : You know why.

  Huck : Because killing people is wrong? In certain circles, that's not true, you know.

  Olivia Pope : In this circle, in *our* circle, it's wrong. I need you to learn that. I'm not always gonna be around.

• Olivia Pope : Hollis should be brought to justice.

  Cyrus Beene : And if what we did gets out?

  Olivia Pope : Then it gets out, and *we're* brought to justice.

  Cyrus Beene : You're willing to bring down the whole Republic because you feel guilty. You know what our electoral process is! It's magical! It's like believing in Santa, or the Tooth Fairy, or the Easter Bunny. Magical, as long as they believe. What you're doing is telling the people that the shiny presents and the bulging stockings on Christmas morning are just mom and dad staying up all night to do the work. You're telling them *we're* Santa, *we're* the Easter Bunny, *we're* the Tooth Fairy. You're taking the magic away! You're ruining Christmas morning, and the whole Republic is gonna come crumbling down because you're not tough enough to do what needs to be done!

  Olivia Pope : Get your house in order, Cyrus, and hire a lawyer.