Scandal (TV Series)

Sweet Baby (2012)

Kerry Washington: Olivia Pope

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Quotes 

• Olivia Pope : He's not wooing me, we're friends.

  Stephen Finch : You and I are friends. He's the leader of the free world. Your life makes me feel unsuccessful.

• Amanda Tanner : He told me he loved me. He gave me this dog.

  Olivia Pope : See, it's those kind of lies that could hurt you if you said them to other people people not as nice as me. I'll give you some free advice. Hand in your resignation and pack up your dog and your things and get in your car and go. Find a small city Minneapolis, maybe, or Denver, get a little job, meet a boring boy, make some friends. Because in this town, your career is over. You're done.

  Amanda Tanner : Why are you doing this to me? I'm a good person.

  Olivia Pope : You know who else was a good person? Monica Lewinsky. And she was telling the truth, but she still got destroyed.

• [last lines] 

  Cyrus Beene : Nice work on Sully St. James. Well, he wants to see you.

  Olivia Pope : Tell him to go to hell.

  Cyrus Beene : I'm just the messenger.

  Olivia Pope : You tell him that he better hope to God that Amanda Tanner doesn't want to come forward with her story, because she just became my client.

  Sully St. James : [on television]  I am honored to have served my country. I am honored to have been injured serving my country. And just as importantly, I am honored to be a gay man who served my country.

• David Rosen : Olivia, you don't have the muscle of the White House behind you anymore. You're just a private citizen, who is, by the way, annoying.

  Olivia Pope : He's a decorated war hero. He's a patriot. You realize the blow-back you'll get for rushing to judgment on a patriot?

  David Rosen : The blowback *you'll* create?

  Olivia Pope : Well, yeah. That's my job.

  David Rosen : Do you actually have the naivete to believe that waking me in the middle of the night and threatening me is the correct path to getting your way?

  Olivia Pope : I wasn't threatening you. He didn't kill her. My gut says he didn't.

  David Rosen : Your spidey senses aren't evidence. I've been on the phone with homicide. He killed her and ran.

  Olivia Pope : I can have a reporter out here in 20 minutes, with cameras, asking why you are persecuting an innocent, handicapped medal of honor winner. Perhaps because he's a well-known conservative republican and you are considering a bid on the democratic ticket next year. Just to be clear that was me threatening you.

• Olivia Pope : Marry the girl. Be normal.

  Stephen Finch : You can't just... you're bullying me.

  Olivia Pope : As long as I've known you, you've dated a series of women I can only describe as trashy and too young for you and most of all, stupid. Georgia is funny and fun and old enough and brilliant, and you know you want to marry her. We all know you want to marry her, so pick a damn ring already so we can go find an alibi for Sully St. James.

• Olivia Pope : The rules have changed. Don't ask, don't tell is over.

  Sully St. James : That is talk! I am a conservative republican! I am publicly anti-gay! I am a deacon in my church. They're talking about me running for Congress one day. I am Lieutenant Colonel Sullivan St. James. I'm a hero. I can't be gay.

• Olivia Pope : [about his 'cold feet']  If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, but you have to try, because if you try, if you leap and you try, and it doesn't work out, it's not on you.

  Stephen Finch : It's not on me.

  Olivia Pope : You can do this.

  Stephen Finch : Okay. Okay. I can do this.

  Olivia Pope : Go. Be happy. Get some normal.