- [first lines]
- Sally Langston: [on her TV show] O, say can you see, Lovers of Liberty. By dawn's early light, a political cat fight, with nary an end in sight.
- Olivia Pope: As the audience here in L A as well as the rest of the country could see, Senator Grant was the clear winner of the debate.
- Abby Whelan: You witnessed a desperate woman up there, lashing out, knowing all the momentum is now with Susan.
- Huck: Quinn, don't.
- Quinn Perkins: What? Look, I'm not judging. I am asking. Nobody in this room can judge. I mean, who amongst us hasn't gone over the edge and killed somebody once? Or even twice.
- Abby Whelan: [to the president in the Oval Office] I run you. You run the country. That's the job. I run you, so you can run the country. I make these decisions so that you don't have to. So that you can decide who lives and who dies when you bomb a village looking for terrorists. So that you can go hold the hands of broken mothers when a classroom full of first graders gets gunned down by some school shooter in Illinois. So you can take us to the moon or Mars or wherever is next. I run you, you run the country. That is the job, and you don't question it. You do not get to cage your monster!
- Olivia Pope: I made that Oval. I built that president. I had to walk away from the White House because of him. I want it back. I want my White House back. I earned it!
- [last lines]
- Abby Whelan: We need to do what we should've done a long time ago.
- Olivia Pope: Take down
- Abby Whelan, Olivia Pope: [in unison] Hollis Doyle.
- Sally Langston: [on her TV show] Let's see how this plays out, shall we?