- [first lines]
- President Fitzgerald Grant: My fellow Americans, now that congress has fulfilled its constitutional duty, completing their fair and thorough investigation into my administration, I come before you to say how proud and humbled I am to be your president, and to say how sorry I am. To my family, to Mellie, to my children, to every American, most of all, to those parents out there. Over the last few weeks, the news coming into your homes raised questions from your children, uncomfortable questions related to my personal life, questions on topics you may have been forced to answer too soon. As your leader, as a father, I am truly sorry for that. I've asked the lord for forgiveness. I ask the same of you. And I will work tirelessly to be worthy of that forgiveness by focusing on making your schools better, your healthcare more affordable, and our country safer and more productive. Thank you.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: [making a toast with his staff] To Congress. May their heads one day depart from their asses.
- Jake Ballard: You didn't think about the body count you'd rack up when you let a mass murderer and his crazy sidekick out of prison?
- Olivia Pope: Jake, if I had known, if I had thought for even a second...
- Jake Ballard: The woman I loved killed the woman I used to love, or... the woman I used to love killed the woman I love! I can't figure it out.
- Marcus Walker: Where is she going?
- Huck: To tell the president he might have just hung a medal on a rapist.
- Marcus Walker: The White House isn't our client.
- Quinn Perkins: She's the president's girlfriend, the White House is always our client. I hate the new normal.
- David Rosen: Disclosure of confidential information on live, national television...
- Elizabeth North: Exactly what confidential information do you think I'm going to disclose?
- David Rosen: That's confidential.
- Janet Holland: I graduated college in 1973. Do you know how many women in this country had a college degree in 1973?
- Olivia Pope: I don't.
- Janet Holland: 8.5%. People were surprised I'd even want to. My father said I was pretending to be a man. My mother said she hoped I wouldn't scare off a good husband. I'm sorry. Oh, don't be. It was the times.
- Cyrus Beene: [about Olivia getting between himself and the president] I can have an ego. I can be competitive, vindictive. Look, I was the guy behind the guy. But then lately, I'd started to believe that I'd become the guy behind the girl behind the guy, which I don't like, which I hate. You know I hate that.
- Olivia Pope: Cyrus he's happy. He's content.
- Cyrus Beene: He was never meant to be happy. Happy, content men don't run the world, which is why he is not running the world. He does whatever you say, without question. You have pulled off a clean, bloodless coup in the United States of America, and no one is the wiser. That is one for the history books.
- Olivia Pope: I know this is difficult for you, because you seem to be so unfamiliar with how humans behave, but Cyrus, Fitz and I together, we have an actual relationship. This is what a couple looks like.
- [last lines]
- Olivia Pope: Have David Rosen call the governor of Nevada. Maybe he doesn't want to be re-elected. Maybe he wants to be investigated.