- Ethan: The President wanted to review the numbers with...
- Mellie Grant: With whom?
- Cyrus Beene: With whom, Ethan?
- Ethan: With his new campaign manager.
- Ethan: [walks in on Fitz and Olivia kissing] The rest of your campaign team would like to see the poll numbers - when you get a minute.
- David Rosen: So, your husband gives you a sweet government job and you walk right on over to the dark side.
- James Novak: Yes, my husband gave me a sweet government job. And how exactly does that differ from what he did for you?
- Olivia Pope: I know what happened. That I'm sorry, dad.
- Rowan Pope: "You know what happened." No, you have no idea what happened. You have no idea what is currently happening. You're skipping around in a field full of bombs and mistaking them for daisies. This, dear sweet child, is what happened. The married man you can't seem to stay away from had me abducted and locked me up in chains and spoke to me about the way you taste, while he allowed the terrorist who snaked her way into my marriage bed to clear US air space. What happened was, the man you screwed betrayed me by freeing the woman who gave birth to you as a bargaining chip. What happened was, the man who defiled you also defiled an organization that I gave my soul to build. That is what happened.
- Rowan Pope: What is currently happening is that President Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III has made an enemy, the worst kind of enemy, because I know all his secrets. I know where every body is buried. And the greatest weapon I can use against him calls me "dad." "Uncommon valor was a common virtue."The thing about that quote, Olivia, is that it's from the good old days. It no longer applies. Today everyone is afraid. Everyone *should* be afraid. The President should be very afraid. And if I were you, Olivia, I would be terrified. I would pick up whatever chips you have left and run as far away as possible from that burning building known as the White House. Run, Olivia. Run. Because, mark my words, Fitzgerald Grant is not going to make it to the end of his term.
- Olivia Pope: You wouldn't dare.
- Rowan Pope: Watch me. Start grieving now, Olivia. Rend your garments, curse the heavens. It will save you time down the road. But first, run!
- Sally Langston: It is because I turned my back on the faithful and condoned abortion.
- Cyrus Beene: Abortion? Really?
- Sally Langston: I did not murder my husband, Leo. The devil murdered my husband when he snuck inside me. And the reason I was not vigilant, the reason that I did not rise up and turn the devil away from my gate is that he distracted me. With pride, he distracted me into turning my back on my flock, into abandoning the innocent unborn. I was distracted, and I let the devil inside of me, and he used my hand as a vessel of murder, a vessel of sin.
- Charlie: Great thing about our line of work, rock-solid job stability. I mean, as long as people have to live together, someone's gonna pay to have someone else killed. Fact of life.
- Cyrus Beene: [shopping with Quinn] Do you have power drills around here? Maybe something in a blow torch?
- Terry: For a book shelf?
- Cyrus Beene: We're big readers.
- Abby Whelan: Do you even know how to use it? The safety and the clip and how you're not supposed to tuck it in your waistband or else you could shoot off your penis?
- Harrison Wright: I know how a gun works, Abby.
- [racks and checks the gun]
- Leo Bergen: [sitting a Cyrus' desk looking a pictures] Nice family. I mean, could use a mommy, but...
- Cyrus Beene: I'll give you exactly one second to get your feet off my desk.
- Leo Bergen: Or what?
- Cyrus Beene: Or I'll cut them off and shove them down your throat.
- Leo Bergen: Size 11 1/2? I seriously doubt my feet would fit down my throat.
- Cyrus Beene: I'm not talking about your feet, you baby-faced twit. I'm talking about your balls. Have they even dropped yet? Will you miss them when they're gone?
- Jake Ballard: I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States.
- Olivia Pope: Don't we all? Serving the Republic. I always thought it was a good thing a great thing. True service, a calling. Now I think, I think it eats at you until you are not you anymore, until you are lost, until you can't remember who you were, until you forget yourself, and all you can see is the greater good. All you can see is God and country. And you're so busy being a patriot, you forget to be a person.
- Leo Bergen: Wow! You know, I never realized people like you actually existed. I don't know whether to be excited or scared.
- Rowan Pope: Both. You should be both.
- [last lines]
- Andrew Nichols: [waiting to go onto the stage with the president] Every day for the last 12 years, I have dreamed of this.
- Mellie Grant: Being on a ticket?
- Andrew Nichols: Being near you again.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: So, without further ado, I'd like you to meet the next Vice President of the United States, my former Lieutenant Governor and Governor of California, a man I consider a brother as much as a friend, Governor Andrew Nichols!
- [cheering]