Scandal (TV Series)

We Do Not Touch the First Ladies (2014)

Kerry Washington: Olivia Pope

Quotes 

• Olivia Pope : At every fundraiser, every dinner, you'll be giving a speech selling yourself, selling the ticket, selling the friendship.

  Andrew Nichols : Selling the bromance.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : How is that even a word?

• Jake Ballard : And one more thing.

  Olivia Pope : What?

  Jake Ballard : Stock your damn fridge.

  [beginning to undress] 

  Jake Ballard : If I'm gonna be your fake boyfriend all day, I'm gonna come home at the end of it and drink real beer and eat real food. Wine is not beer, and pop corn is definitely not food.

  Olivia Pope : What are you doing?

  Jake Ballard : I'm gonna take a shower. It's been a long day, and I want to wash it off me before we have pretend sex.

• Olivia Pope : You went too far with Quinn.

  Huck : No, *you* went too far.

  Olivia Pope : Excuse me?

  Huck : You took in a wild monster and you groomed me and petted me and trained me to sit at your feet, but that doesn't make me a puppy, Liv, that just makes me a very loyal monster. So I didn't go too far, I went exactly as far as my leash allows. And you hold the leash. You ruined her life, and you made me save her, and then you gave her to me to take under my wing.

  Olivia Pope : Huck...

  Huck : You hold the leash. You went too far. You should have never given me someone to love. Monsters eat people, Liv. It's what we do.

• [first lines] 

  Olivia Pope : [argument being overheard in the hallway by the Secret Service]  Can you just let it go?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Let it go? No, I can't!

  Olivia Pope : Well, I'm not talking about it.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : He's standing outside our door.

  Jake Ballard : [in the hallway]  You guys always lock down the entire floor?

  Tom Larsen : Standard operating procedure.

  Olivia Pope : ...How many times are we gonna have this conversation?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Well, what the hell is he doing here?

  Olivia Pope : He's here because there is a pack of reporters covering your fundraiser downstairs.

  Tom Larsen : ...When we go international, we lock down the floors above and below, as well.

• Olivia Pope : [as Jake enters her apartment]  What?

  Jake Ballard : Hello to you, too. You called me. You said it was important. You told me to come home early. I used my official "boyfriend of Olivia Pope" key.