Scandal (TV Series)

Beltway Unbuckled (2012)

Jeff Perry: Cyrus Beene

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.

• Olivia Pope : I can't go into why, but... You need access to Kurkistan's airspace in case you want to attack east Sudan.

  Cyrus Beene : I just left a meeting with three staffers who think Kurkistan is next to Morocco. God, I miss you.

• 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.