Madam Secretary (TV Series)
Another Benghazi (2014)
Téa Leoni: Elizabeth McCord
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Quotes
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Elizabeth McCord : Do not come near me, with that. Don't.
Elizabeth McCord : I love you.
Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord : I know.
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Elizabeth McCord : They are reporting that your guys fired into the crowd and provoked the attack.
Isaac Bishop : Let's not convict them just yet, okay ?
Elizabeth McCord : You let me know the minute I can.
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Russell Jackson : If it's any consolation, that's not how the President sees it. He thinks you saved his ass. Told me to tell you that.
Elizabeth McCord : Were you ? Going to tell me that ?
Russell Jackson : I haven't decided.
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Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord : I don't know what I'm going to do yet. I need more than half a day to think about it.
Elizabeth McCord : Well, let me take the mystery out of it for you. You're going back to college.
Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord : Not back to Lovell. I alerted my advisors and signed the forms.
Elizabeth McCord : Your cerebral cortex isn't fully formed until you're 25 years old. That's the decision-making part of your brain. That's science.
Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord : Good night, Mom...
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Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord : [looking at memorial invitation for George] Remember those bad magic tricks he used to do?
Elizabeth McCord : You never fell for those?
Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord : [laughing] No!
Elizabeth McCord : Even as a kid?
Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord : No, they were terrible. He was funny, though.
Elizabeth McCord : He could hide an entire top secret operations, make it disappear into thin air, but not a quarter.
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Isaac Bishop : Can I ask you how you plan to handle the financial end?
Elizabeth McCord : We have a discretionary fund. This'll classify as a home improvement.
Isaac Bishop : Happy to pave over the money trail accordingly.
Elizabeth McCord : No. I'm not afraid if this becomes public.
Isaac Bishop : So the illusion of transparency?
Elizabeth McCord : No, Mr. Bishop, actual transparency. I'm happy to defend actions that protect our people. And making the ambassador's home safer qualifies as an improvement, don't you think? Maybe I'll throw in a fountain.
Isaac Bishop : If anyone is well-acquainted with your code of ethics, Madam Secretary, it is "the new guise of Satan."
Elizabeth McCord : I didn't actually call you Satan.
Isaac Bishop : No, no. Just my life's work.
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Daisy Grant : [staff meeting] We need to release a statement.
Matt Mahoney : Explaining your mystery daughter.
Blake Moran : Not a "mystery" daughter.
Elizabeth McCord : By "mystery" do you mean born out of wedlock, or sired by aliens?
Matt Mahoney : Well, we'd like to remove all doubt about either of those speculations.
Elizabeth McCord : Knock yourself out. Can we talk about matters of national security now...