Scandal (TV Series)

White Hats Off (2012)

Tony Goldwyn: Fitzgerald Grant

Quotes 

• President Fitzgerald Grant : [after interjecting her favorite agenda at a news conference]  You're not the president! You don't weigh in on foreign policy. Your opinion doesn't matter! You are the first lady. Your job is to plant gardens and decorate rooms and let them blog about your clothes. You're ornamental, not functional. So don't come into the oval and try to use your brain, because no one cares.

  Mellie Grant : You always did know just the right way to hurt me.

• Olivia Pope : Are you going to invade east Sudan?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : You know what I think about? The guys at Dover air force base who unload the planes that carry the coffins. There's a whole section of the military dedicated to returning soldiers killed in combat to their families for burial. Right now those guys are sitting at their desks somewhere twiddling their thumbs, collecting a salary for doing nothing. Best waste of taxpayer dollars I can think of.

• [first lines] 

  Mellie Grant : Well, I was thinking yellow, but if it's a boy, the press will make an issue of a boy with a yellow nursery. So we could do primary colors. Red is strong, patriotic. Fitz, are you listening?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : [coming away from the window]  What?

  Mellie Grant : I think Kimberly Mitchell will like red. DNC's logo for America's baby is red. A few of the other networks are going with blue, but that's just foolish until we reveal the sex of the baby. I should've taken Martha Stewart up on her offer to decorate the nursery.