Scandal (TV Series)

Crash and Burn (2012)

Jeff Perry: Cyrus Beene

Quotes 

• President Fitzgerald Grant : Amanda Tanner's dead.

  Cyrus Beene : How sad.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Aren't you gonna ask how it happened?

  Cyrus Beene : No. Should I?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : A young woman died. A member of this administration.

  Cyrus Beene : I said how sad I was. You didn't hear me? I'll say it again. *How* sad. Let's lower the flags.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : For God sakes, Cy, show some respect.

  Cyrus Beene : [moving in front of his desk]  120 innocent Americans, children, mommies and daddies and best friends and husbands and wives died in that plane crash yesterday. *That's* sad. We lost one of the few sane and worthy members of the Senate yesterday. *That's* sad. Four Navy SEALS died in Afghanistan, and that doesn't even touch Sudan, Congo, northern Mexico. *That's* sad. But the disturbed girl who made it her life's mission to take down this administration, the one who was happily - no gleefully carrying your illegitimate bastard child, she's no longer with us? Well, I'm sorry if I'm not sitting Shiva. I'm sorry if I can't help but see the millions of people that we'll actually be able to help, now that Amanda Tanner is gone. I *am* sorry. But this is a good thing. It is a good thing for us. It is a good thing for the country. And...

  [walks out closing the door behind him] 

• Cyrus Beene : Never let a crisis go to waste, Mr. president.