Scandal (TV Series)

A Criminal, a Whore, an Idiot and a Liar (2013)

Kerry Washington: Olivia Pope

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• Edison Davis : I've been racking my brain trying to find a reason why you'd be stupid enough to willingly attempt to defraud the American people, and the only reason I can come up with for why you'd be in so deep is because you were his mistress.

  Olivia Pope : FIVE, that's sexist and insulting. You'd never suggest Scooter Libby was screwing Dick Cheney. FOUR, the lengths you're going to try to twist this into a conspiracy are cause for concern. You should speak to someone about that. THREE, the President is awake and talking, and the suggestion that he isn't is partisan political crap that I thought you had enough integrity to rise above. TWO, in the past three minutes, you have called me a criminal, a whore, an idiot, and a liar, so this is pretty much the last time we'll be speaking. So ONE, who I am, or am not screwing, what I am, or am not doing, is no longer any of your damn business.

• Olivia Pope : You almost died.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Yes.

  Olivia Pope : Don't do it again.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Okay.

• [first lines] 

  Olivia Pope : [walking in to her apartment]  Oh, hi.

  Edison Davis : "Oh. Hi?"

  Olivia Pope : Hello, Edison.

  Edison Davis : Olivia. What? What's going on? With us.

  Olivia Pope : Nothing.

  Edison Davis : Nothing's going on with us?

  Olivia Pope : Edison.

  Edison Davis : This serious boyfriend that you had, the one that you broke up with...

  Olivia Pope : Look, I have a lot to do tomorrow, and I haven't had much sleep and I'm not in the mood to...

  Edison Davis : This serious boyfriend Was it Fitzgerald Grant?

• Olivia Pope : Do you even want to be President?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Obviously.

  Olivia Pope : Is it obvious?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : I'm running.

  Olivia Pope : You're running like you're being chased.

• Olivia Pope : It was a very nice funeral. I liked what you said about your father.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : It was a lie. The story about the dog he got me for my 10th birthday, I made it up. 'Cause you can't get up at your father's funeral and tell the story about how you sat outside his office door on your 10th birthday and listened to him bang his secretary. I'm not sad. I'm relieved. I'm free.

• Cyrus Beene : [in low tones in a hallway]  Fitz is clean. Fitz walks on water. Fitz makes the fishes and the loaves. And people like Hollis and me and you...

  Olivia Pope : [scoffs] 

  Cyrus Beene : Don't roll your eyes. You're one of us, Olivia. We march behind him. We sing his happy tune. And then we pick up our hatchets, and we chop up the judases into bloody little pieces and dance around their corpses, because that is our job. That is what we do. We take care of Fitz. And we don't do it because we are believers, which we are. We don't do it for the rush or the high or the power, which we are most certainly junkies for. We do it because Fitz can't. He can't do it. If he could do it, we wouldn't worship at his altar. People like Fitz... They go down in history. People like us, we create the history. We run this world so he can lead it.

  Olivia Pope : In order to lead it, the people have to elect him, Cyrus. The people have to find him worthy.

  Cyrus Beene : That's what I'm trying to tell you. The way this world works, the people is you and me and Hollis and Mellie and Verna. We're the people.

  Olivia Pope : Cy...

  [crouches down] 

  Cyrus Beene : No. It comes down to two questions, Olivia does he deserve to be President? And if you believe he does, do you think he can win it on his own? If you can say "yes" to both, then we'll never discuss election rigging. Ever again.

  [walks away]