Scandal (TV Series)

Happy Birthday, Mr. President (2012)

Tony Goldwyn: Fitzgerald Grant

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• President Fitzgerald Grant : You're playing the race card because I'm in love with you? Come on! Don't belittle us. It's insulting and beneath you and design to drive me away. I'm not going away.

  Olivia Pope : I don't have to drive you away. You're married and you have children. You're the leader of the Free World. You are away by definition. You are away. You're unavailable.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : So this is about Mellie?

  Olivia Pope : No, no, no! This is... I smile at her and take off my clothes for you. I wait for you. I watch for you. My whole life is you. I can't breathe because I'm waiting for you. You own me, you control me, I belong to you.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : You own me! You control me. I belong to you. You think I don't want to be a better man? You think that I don't want to dedicate myself to my marriage? You don't think I want to be honorable? To be the man you voted for? I love you. I'm in love with you. You're the love of my life. My every feeling is controlled by the look on your face. I can't breathe without you. I can't sleep without you. I wait for you, I watch for you. I exist for you. If I could escape all of this and run away with you? There's no Sally or Thomas here. You're nobody's victim, Liv. I belong to you. We're in this together.

• Olivia Pope : Somehow, I've become this person who I have no words.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : We are together. That's all that matters.

  Olivia Pope : Really? Because I'm feeling a little, I don't know, Sally Hemings/Thomas Jefferson about all this. I have to go.

• Olivia Pope : Did you need something, Mr. President?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : See, you used to sound sexy when you called me "Mr. President." Now it just sounds like I'm a gym teacher.