Designated Survivor (TV Series)

Capacity (2018)

Kal Penn: Seth Wright

Quotes 

• Seth Wright : [leaving a press briefing]  I'm very confident the world is gonna come crashing down around us.

  Emily Rhodes : Maybe don't say that.

• Seth Wright : You know what Nixon did on his last day in office? He didn't shut the government down. He got a haircut, okay? He thanked his staff.

  Emily Rhodes : Nixon's goose was already cooked.

  Seth Wright : And our guy is getting plucked in front of our eyes. And yet here we are, the hunky-dory brigade.

  Emily Rhodes : And we carry on until we're carried out. That's what we do here.

  Seth Wright : Yes, Em, I get that. And I'm down. But, you know, it's like Custer's last stand around here.

  Emily Rhodes : For all of us. Look, I have to testify, and I can't take the Fifth. If I'm asked about telling Chuck to break the law to protect the president...

  Seth Wright : What are you gonna do?

  Emily Rhodes : Face the music. That's the order of business today.

  Seth Wright : 'Till the band stops playing.

• Seth Wright : Hey, the press wants to know where we are with the budget.

  Emily Rhodes : In process.

  Seth Wright : Deadline's tonight or it's a government shutdown.

  Emily Rhodes : We go through this every year. We're close to a deal.

  Seth Wright : How close?

  Lyor Boone : Very close. The Senate leadership finally agreed to fund the Medicaid cost-of-living increases.

  Emily Rhodes : Great. An $8 billion win for us. What do they want in return?

  Lyor Boone : Just a few minor compromises. They're gonna come in and button it up.

  Emily Rhodes : We'll get the bill on the president's desk tonight.

  Lyor Boone : Yeah, we should probably get that on his desk sooner than that.

  Emily Rhodes : I'll get them in here.