Madam Secretary (TV Series)

Spartan Figures (2015)

Bebe Neuwirth: Nadine Tolliver

Quotes 

• Blake Moran : Sorry. We've been calling since this morning, but, uh... we didn't have any signal. What's that smell?

  Nadine Tolliver : We have good news. They reached an agreement in Brussels to solve the Greek debt crisis.

  Elizabeth McCord : Oh, thank God. And horse crap.

  Nadine Tolliver : I beg your pardon.

  Elizabeth McCord : That's what that smell is.

  Blake Moran : Oh.

  Henry McCord : Well, another global depression avoided. Lunch?

• Elizabeth McCord : [Explaining to the team why Blake was out drinking with his counterparts for the German government]  Blake was on a fact finding mission for me last night. Although the public urination was his idea.

  Blake Moran : Nature calls the same in any language.

  Matt Mahoney : Wait. So you were talking to her the whole time.

  Blake Moran : Except for the part when I was in a lockup with a skinhead and a mime.

  Nadine Tolliver : Ma'am. These trade craft episodes would work even better if you would fill us all in.

  Elizabeth McCord : No. That's actually the opposite of how they work.