- Mellie Grant: You want to get our party of good ole boys to admit the possession of a vagina doesn't automatically mean a sister should get docked 32 cents on the dollar? Good for you, baby. Fight the power.
- [last lines]
- Olivia Pope: [to the press] Moments like this give every woman an opportunity to decide what kind of person she wants to be. Deep down, no matter what face we present to the world, no matter what pain we're hiding, what struggle we've been through, we know our worth. We know what we're capable of. We know who we are, who we'll always be, and we have a choice. We can hide in the shadows, or we can stand in the light.
- [first lines]
- Jake Ballard: [walking up to her beach chair] Hi.
- Olivia Pope: Hi.
- [they kiss]
- Olivia Pope: Boat's gonna be here soon.
- Jake Ballard: Well, it's not here yet.
- Olivia Pope: It's gonna be here soon.
- Jake Ballard: It's about 15 minutes out. You want to use those 15 minutes?
- [stroking her]
- Jake Ballard: Or stop?
- Olivia Pope: Don't stop.
- Elizabeth North: I'm hearing rumors about a new Attorney General, rumors of a Democrat, Cyrus, a Democrat!
- Cyrus Beene: Lizzie Bear...
- Elizabeth North: Cyrus...
- Cyrus Beene: [moving toward the door] Thank you for coming. It was lovely to see you.
- Elizabeth North: Excuse me?
- Cyrus Beene: Do you need to validate a ticket for your broomstick, or can you find your way out on your own?
- Jake Ballard: Do you remember the last time we were together, Rosen?
- David Rosen: Was that the time you killed three people, or another time? All the fear and violence starts to blend together.
- Jake Ballard: You told me you wanted to take down Cyrus Beene. You told me you wanted to take down B-613. You asked me to help you "make these people answer for their crimes."Do you remember that?
- David Rosen: Yes.
- Jake Ballard: I believed you. I stole those files from B-613 to help you go get the bad guys. Did you go get the bad guys?
- David Rosen: I spent two months going through those files. I read them every day. I even created a color-coded system: orange for scary, red for very-scary, and black for crap-your-pants-and-wait-for-someone-to-come-kill-you scary. And most of those files, Jake, are black. Those files are terrifying.
- Jake Ballard: So pull the trigger, or give them back...
- Clark: Self-defense doesn't have a great shelf life. It starts to smell funny if it sits out too long. Where were you, anyway?
- Olivia Pope: On an island.
- Clark: That sounds boring. And lonely.
- Olivia Pope: Not as lonely as Washington.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I'm not gonna try and kill myself.
- Mellie Grant: [hanging over the railing] I know that. I'm not you.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I had a bad night. One bad night. Don't ever bring that up again.
- Mellie Grant: I will add it to the list. Dead kid, missing mistress, Mellie's rape, Fitz's suicide.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: She's not missing. She's back.
- Mellie Grant: [to Fitz] I don't know if I can even imagine getting turned on by you right now. Oh, and FYI, when you stick your hand into my panties, another thing that I just don't do anymore is wax. So it's 1976 down there. So you maybe wouldn't be turned on by me anyway.