Scandal (TV Series)

Truth or Consequences (2013)

Tony Goldwyn: Fitzgerald Grant

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• Cyrus Beene : You took a bullet to the head not too long ago. And one of the possible side effects of an injury to the, I think it's called the prefrontal cortex, is recklessness, a predilection for making bold declarations Declarations like, "I want to torpedo my political career - by divorcing my wife."

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Cyrus...

  Cyrus Beene : Another common side effect is delusion. Maybe you're having that. One hell of a grade A delusion that makes you believe that while in office you could divorce your nine-months-pregnant wife and what? Kick her out of the White House and move in your mistress? No, you can't think that, because we're not French. Marry your mistress? Now, Liv is a lovely, smart woman. I can't get enough of her. But she is not exactly a hue that most of your Republican constituents would be happy about, even if they could get past the divorcing and the cheating and the abandoning of America's baby. It concerns me, sir, how big your delusion is.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Here's what's great about having someone attempt to assassinate you. You're being rushed somewhere on a gurney, and doctors are yelling, and blood is pouring out of you, and you could die. And you suddenly *stop* being afraid, of anything, or anyone. And when you don't die, when you miraculously live, you realize that you have nothing to lose, and no time to waste. I am *going* to divorce Mellie, and I am going to remain President of the United States after I do so. That is today's big idea. That's my job. Do your job. Work out the details. Make it happen.