- [first lines]
- Announcer: The Liberty Report, with Sally Langston.
- Sally Langston: Lovers of Liberty, we are back. Now, where were we? Ah, power. Power, my dear lovers of Liberty, is the beating heart of our nation's bosom. The high and mighty members of the political elite feed on it, breed on it, for power is the host - the enormous teat off which this entire town suckles. Oh, and you wonder why Washington can't get anything done. The hunt for power is all-consuming. Everyone always needs more, and nobody ever has enough. The stories I could tell you.
- Olivia Pope: What do you mean about the client? "This isn't the kind of client you want to talk about on the phone, because of NSA surveillance."
- Huck: Oh, yeah, we definitely do not want anyone at the NSA to hear about this.
- Olivia Pope: Why? Who's the client?
- Huck: The head of the NSA.
- Jake Ballard: [late night] You're working?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: You seem good. What? You thought you'd find me drunk, playing Russian roulette with the nuclear codes?
- Jake Ballard: [looking out from the night time Oval Office balcony] I really have to get myself this view.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Only one way to get this view. And trust me, it's a bitch.
- Cyrus Beene: [advising Abby] The man needs a wife. He always has, and he always will. He can't function any other way. He is not meant to be alone. He doesn't know how. He needs a wife. It can't be Liv anymore because she's gone. Mellie was a great one for all her faults. I was brilliant at it, but I can't be me anymore. Betrayal's still there.
- Rowan Pope: [lecturing Olivia] You can either stand there like a 12-year-old and lecture me about morality or, even worse, rat us out in the name of justice. Or you can take your cue from us and get yourself some power real power - 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue power. You think you have that now, but you're standing on the sidelines, screaming at the referee like a sad, drunk parent at a high-school football game. If you're okay with that, by all means. But I know my daughter as I know my son, and I know that won't suffice.
- Quinn Perkins: [having turned down Marcus' dinner invitation] Huck, why are you so mean to him?
- Huck: He's normal.
- Quinn Perkins: So?
- Huck: He's a normal person, Quinn. We have to protect him. We can't let him be friends with us.
- Olivia Pope: [handing back her draft manuscript] You can publish this, or you can write a real book that tells the American people who you are, what you've been through, what you think about, what you've been through. A book that is truthful. A book that is hard. This book was easy to write and easy to forget. The book you need to write will be hard, but people will remember it. That book will help make you president.
- Mellie Grant: I want to write that book.
- [last lines]
- Sally Langston: [on her TV show] Power. Like it, hate it, want it, have it. Feel however you want about it. Power is the fuel that runs this great big industrial machine we all help move forward, and that fuel is made of only one thing you. That is what the fat cats in Washington like to call the American way. See you next week. And remember, love your Liberty, or lose it.