Scandal (TV Series)

Gladiators Don't Run (2015)

Tony Goldwyn: Fitzgerald Grant

Quotes 

• President Fitzgerald Grant : The auction for Olivia. If we were doing absolutely everything we could to get her back, we'd be bidding. They want to play dirty, I want in. We can win this. Who has more money than the United States of America?

  Cyrus Beene : China, Saudi Arabia.

  Mellie Grant : The United Arab Emirates.

• Mellie Grant : What's the word on Olivia?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Cy says the CIA's confident they'll have her home within 24 hours.

  Mellie Grant : That's good. Whew. We sleep better when she's lying between us.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : I'm not sure how to respond to that.

• CIA Deputy : We don't believe we can extract the asset at this time.

  CIA Director Lowry : In light of these developments, we need to consider other options.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : There are no other options than extraction.

  CIA Deputy : Olivia Pope is a former high-level White House official. She maintains a top-secret clear...

  President Fitzgerald Grant : There are no other options than extraction.

  CIA Director Lowry : Ms. Pope's vast knowledge of United States intelligence poses an ongoing threat to national security. Standard protocol in this situation is to neutralize the asset. We are not neutralizing the asset!

• President Fitzgerald Grant : Apologize to Director Lowry for me.

  Cyrus Beene : I refuse to do that, Sir. You were in the right. Besides, if the director of the CIA can't take being yelled at, the future of our nation's intelligence is in severe jeopardy.

• [last lines] 

  President Fitzgerald Grant : We have to get Olivia back. Not just because I love her, not just because having her out there is a threat to national security. There are soldiers who are never coming home because I tried to get her back - someone's father, someone's husband. I have killed so many mothers' sons trying to get her back. The flags placed on the coffins where they lay are there because they had the courage to give their lives, and I did not have the courage to give Liv's. So, she has to come back, because their sacrifice damn well has to mean something. They cannot have died for nothing. They cannot have gone to their deaths for no other reason than I asked them to.

  Cyrus Beene : We will get her back. I promise you, Sir I will do everything in my power to make sure we get her back.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Thank you.