Scandal (TV Series)

Crash and Burn (2012)

Tony Goldwyn: Fitzgerald Grant

Quotes 

• President Fitzgerald Grant : [to his Secret Service agents]  Kennedy never left the White House in secret? What am I, born yesterday?

  Hal Rimbeau : Sir, we have no knowledge of...

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Look, I want to go somewhere spontaneously. How do I do that?

  Tom Larsen : I would inform our immediate supervisor at the Secret Service, who'd inform the head of the Secret Service and the White House Press Secretary, who'd inform the White House Press Corps.

  Tom Larsen : I would inform our immediate supervisor at the Secret Service, who'd inform the head of the Secret Service and the White House Press Secretary, who'd inform the White House Press Corps. 150 individuals would assemble, along with your bulletproof presidential limousine, your chase-and-follow car, your ambulance, two unmarked vehicles, as well as the sharpshooters and the marine guard...

  President Fitzgerald Grant : No.

  Tom Larsen : Sir?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : What if I wanted to go somewhere alone, no Secret Service, no press, no anything?

  Hal Rimbeau : Technically, the President of the United States is allowed to refuse the protection of Secret Service, but, uh...

  President Fitzgerald Grant : "but, uh," what?

  Hal Rimbeau : It needs to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, sir. And recorded in the National Record.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : [chuckles]  I'm not a prisoner.

  Tom Larsen , Hal Rimbeau : No, sir.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : I am the most powerful man on the planet.

  Tom Larsen , Hal Rimbeau : Yes, sir.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : But I can't leave my house.

  Tom Larsen , Hal Rimbeau : No, sir.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : You see where I might be a little bit annoyed?

  Tom Larsen , Hal Rimbeau : Yes, sir.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : I am a grown man. I am going to leave here. If I have to walk out to the staff parking lot with you two following me, jump into someone's 1994 Civic, and drive off without protection, I am going to leave. I would like to be safe, and not jeopardize the economy of this country when I did so. Can you come up with a way to make that happen?

  Tom Larsen : Two sedans, covered parking, one sharpshooter, and your ambulance.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : One sedan and covered parking. No sharpshooters and no ambulance.

  Tom Larsen : One sedan, covered parking, no sharpshooters, we keep the ambulance and add two agents.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Sold...

  [walks out the door] 

  Hal Rimbeau : Just like 43...

• President Fitzgerald Grant : Amanda Tanner's dead.

  Cyrus Beene : How sad.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Aren't you gonna ask how it happened?

  Cyrus Beene : No. Should I?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : A young woman died. A member of this administration.

  Cyrus Beene : I said how sad I was. You didn't hear me? I'll say it again. *How* sad. Let's lower the flags.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : For God sakes, Cy, show some respect.

  Cyrus Beene : [moving in front of his desk]  120 innocent Americans, children, mommies and daddies and best friends and husbands and wives died in that plane crash yesterday. *That's* sad. We lost one of the few sane and worthy members of the Senate yesterday. *That's* sad. Four Navy SEALS died in Afghanistan, and that doesn't even touch Sudan, Congo, northern Mexico. *That's* sad. But the disturbed girl who made it her life's mission to take down this administration, the one who was happily - no gleefully carrying your illegitimate bastard child, she's no longer with us? Well, I'm sorry if I'm not sitting Shiva. I'm sorry if I can't help but see the millions of people that we'll actually be able to help, now that Amanda Tanner is gone. I *am* sorry. But this is a good thing. It is a good thing for us. It is a good thing for the country. And...

  [walks out closing the door behind him] 

• [last lines] 

  Olivia Pope : [answer a knock at her door and stands speechless] 

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Hi.

  Olivia Pope : Hi.