Scandal (TV Series)

Ride, Sally, Ride (2014)

Kerry Washington: Olivia Pope

Quotes 

• Olivia Pope : I know what happened. That I'm sorry, dad.

  Rowan Pope : "You know what happened." No, you have no idea what happened. You have no idea what is currently happening. You're skipping around in a field full of bombs and mistaking them for daisies. This, dear sweet child, is what happened. The married man you can't seem to stay away from had me abducted and locked me up in chains and spoke to me about the way you taste, while he allowed the terrorist who snaked her way into my marriage bed to clear US air space. What happened was, the man you screwed betrayed me by freeing the woman who gave birth to you as a bargaining chip. What happened was, the man who defiled you also defiled an organization that I gave my soul to build. That is what happened.

  Rowan Pope : What is currently happening is that President Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III has made an enemy, the worst kind of enemy, because I know all his secrets. I know where every body is buried. And the greatest weapon I can use against him calls me "dad." "Uncommon valor was a common virtue."The thing about that quote, Olivia, is that it's from the good old days. It no longer applies. Today everyone is afraid. Everyone *should* be afraid. The President should be very afraid. And if I were you, Olivia, I would be terrified. I would pick up whatever chips you have left and run as far away as possible from that burning building known as the White House. Run, Olivia. Run. Because, mark my words, Fitzgerald Grant is not going to make it to the end of his term.

  Olivia Pope : You wouldn't dare.

  Rowan Pope : Watch me. Start grieving now, Olivia. Rend your garments, curse the heavens. It will save you time down the road. But first, run!

• Jake Ballard : I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States.

  Olivia Pope : Don't we all? Serving the Republic. I always thought it was a good thing a great thing. True service, a calling. Now I think, I think it eats at you until you are not you anymore, until you are lost, until you can't remember who you were, until you forget yourself, and all you can see is the greater good. All you can see is God and country. And you're so busy being a patriot, you forget to be a person.