Scandal (TV Series)

Beltway Unbuckled (2012)

Tony Goldwyn: Fitzgerald Grant

Quotes 

• President Fitzgerald Grant : [watching her wife on TV]  The woman's a political genius.

  Cyrus Beene : Which one?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Huh?

  Cyrus Beene : Mellie or Liv?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Both. They both are.

• [first lines] 

  Mellie Grant : Fitz. Fitzgerald! There are nine other bedrooms in this place besides our room and this nursery. You are sweating up the baby's sofa. I will have to have it cleaned.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : If I sleep in one of the other bedrooms, the staff will know.

  Mellie Grant : So then they'll know.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Mellie, if the staff knows, then the press will know in under 24 hours.

  Mellie Grant : Good for them.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Really? You're fine with the press knowing that we don't sleep in the same bed?

  Mellie Grant : Tell the press that pregnancy is making me toss and turn, so you're sleeping in another bed so that I can be more comfortable, tell them that you have been staying up late in bed trying to come up with new ways to keep America safe and Democratic and free, and you don't want to disturb my pretty little head with all that thinking. Or tell them that I don't want to spend my nights sleeping next to a man who gets erections in his sleep dreaming of Olivia Pope. Your choice. I don't care.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Relax. I'm kidding. For now.

• President Fitzgerald Grant : I'm the leader of the free world, I'm arguably the most powerful man on the planet, and I am being brought to my knees by my wife and my... And Olivia Pope. This is a political nightmare. Jenny Nystrom has become more important than the entire nation of east Sudan thanks to Liv and Mellie. They worked together. I... They worked together.

  Cyrus Beene : The women in your life play a very mean game of political chess.