Scandal (TV Series)

Like Father, Like Daughter (2014)

Tony Goldwyn: Fitzgerald Grant

Quotes 

• President Fitzgerald Grant : I have dealt with drunk Mellie, bad-hygiene Mellie... No, wait, I got it, smelly Mellie. I have dealt with drunk Mellie, and smellie Mellie, and screw-everything-to-hell Mellie, and cry-baby Mellie, and eat-everything-that's-not-nailed-down Mellie, and I have not complained. But I will not put up with whatever righteous history-rewriting Mellie you have going on right here, right now. This is not your family. You are not the mother Not since Jerry died. Since Jerry died you have abdicated your role. You have mothered no one. You hold nothing together. You pick up no pieces. You know how I know this? Because baby Teddy thinks his mother is nanny Jen. And Karen spent last night in a threesome with two guys doing a move on her they like to call Eiffel Towering! You know how I know that? I saw the sex tape they made! So you should be damn glad she called Olivia, because Olivia Pope is fixing this mess, this mess that you made. This mess that we made. Look, I know that I share some guilt in all of this. But you want to know the difference between you and me? All day, every day, I am running a country - I am grieving for the loss of my son - but I am also running a country. All day, every day, you are sitting around in booties and a dirty robe eating chips and getting drunk at 11:00AM!

  Mellie Grant : A sex tape?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Yeah.

  Mellie Grant : She takes after her daddy then, doesn't she?

• [last lines] 

  Rowan Pope : [in interrogation room]  Let me make something clear, Agent Larsen. There won't be one single person left on your side when you leave this room. You want me on your side. You *need* me on your side. And I will do all I can for you if you tell me right now what I need to hear. Who gave you the order?

  Tom Larsen : Please, I...

  Rowan Pope : Who gave you the order, soldier?

  Tom Larsen : Please...

  Rowan Pope : Who gave you the order to kill the president's son?

  Tom Larsen : Jake Ballard. Ballard gave me the order.

  Cyrus Beene : [standing behind the mirrored glass]  Sir?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Do it.