- 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.
- Mellie Grant: [standing with puke on her skirt] I am holding the sticky hands of children who pick their noses and telling their idiot parents to do their job and immunize their kids. How stupid do you have to be not to immunize your kid? Isn't it just natural selection if your unimmunized, snot-nosed brat gets smallpox in the 21st century? And I have to smile and get puked on? This is my platform? This is what I'm supposed to do all day?
- Verna Thornton: Don't you have somewhere you have to be?
- Olivia Pope: No. I have some time. I'm serious.
- Verna Thornton: Aren't you supposed to be fixing someone or saving someone right now? Why isn't that phone of yours ringing or buzzing or dinging or whatever it is blueberries do?
- 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.
- Hollis Doyle: David Rosen. Glad to finally meet you. I always keep an eye out for legal talent. A man in my position can't have too many lawyers, unfortunately.
- 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.
- Huck: Don't do it.
- Peter Nystrom: Excuse me?
- Huck: Wherever you are going after you drop your wife at the hotel, the hardware store, the gun shop, the safe in the back of your closet, don't go there. Don't do it. It's not worth it. He's not worth it. It will feel good for a few seconds, but then it will eat at you for the rest of your life.
- Peter Nystrom: Let me ask you, you got kids?
- Huck: No, sir.
- Peter Nystrom: Yeah. I didn't think so.
- Huck: [at his AA meeting after executing a suspect] I went out hard, drank a lot of whiskey. I wish I could say I didn't enjoy it, that I felt sick to my stomach, that I couldn't even look at myself in the mirror afterwards. But I can't say that, because it was... It was perfect. And that kind of perfection doesn't make me feel weak, it makes me feel strong. I looked at myself in the mirror, and I finally recognized that person I once knew so well, that person who went out all the time, sometimes just for fun. And now that I've seen that person again, I don't know if I could ever go back.
- [last lines]
- Olivia Pope: I hear we have a David Rosen issue.
- Hollis Doyle: That we do, Livie. That we do.