- Mellie Grant: You're back.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: You knew I was coming back this morning.
- Mellie Grant: You've been gone three weeks. Not one phone call. I was starting to think you were dead. I mean, I knew you weren't because I saw you on the news, but a girl can dream.
- [first lines]
- Edison Davis: There was Shayna. She was an artist. We dated for five months, but she didn't like to read. That was an actual thing she said "I don't like to read," as if that is okay. So after her, I dated Maggie. She loved to read. She did not, however, love to be monogamous. Then there was Paulette.
- Olivia Pope: Edison, you've made your point.
- Edison Davis: Have I? Because I still haven't heard a single detail about the men that you've dated since we broke up.
- Olivia Pope: There's nothing to tell.
- Edison Davis: Because you're so ugly no one wants to be with you.
- Olivia Pope: Because there's nothing to tell.
- Edison Davis: You won't be seen in public with me. What am I supposed to think?
- Olivia Pope: That every reporter knows my face, and it would become a story that you're dating a professional fixer. You're a United States senator. The focus should be on you. What was his name? Edison.
- James Novak: One of the machines is missing, Dennis. There's 150 on the list and only 149 here in the warehouse. Do you know what this could mean?
- Security Guard: I make 9 dollar and 30 cent an hour. I have four kids, two in college. I do not care.
- [last lines]
- Mellie Grant: [arriving at the gala] I just don't want to go.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Is it because she's gonna be there Olivia? She got cleared by security an hour ago, which I'm sure you know. Now suddenly, you force me to have this big party, and you don't want to go because you're afraid of my mistress? Let me give you a fun fact she's not my mistress anymore. So buck up. You won.
- Mellie Grant: I just knew too much Let's not go. I don't want to go. I feel I don't want to go.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: We can't always get what we want, can we? Does that make me crazy? Possibly...