- Mellie Grant: [to Olivia] I had a realization about you. All these years I've spent hating you, wishing he'd never met you, thinking you showed up and took him from me. You just appeared out of nowhere and ruined everything. Mellie. But I was wrong. You are not my enemy. You are my freedom. You are my white knight. You are my challenger, my push to greatness, my savior. I was lost, but now I'm found. I was blind, but now I see. You are gonna make me President of the United States.
- [last lines]
- Rowan Pope: [walking up to Olivia] She even threw in an old friend just for me.
- [glances back at Tom the Secret Service agent]
- Rowan Pope: Hello, Olivia.
- [first lines]
- Announcer: "The Liberty Report" with Sally Langston.
- Sally Langston: Welcome back, lovers of Liberty. It's impeachment week here at "The Liberty Report," and, boy, do we have a treat for you. Starting today, 18 senators will sit in judgment of president Fitzgerald Grant III. First on the hot seat Mellie Grant, a senator herself and the object of much speculation.
- Susan Ross: Obviously, I can rely on your discretion.
- David Rosen: You can.
- Susan Ross: Of course I can. You're the Attorney General of the United States. You're probably the most discreet person in the country.
- David Rosen: One of them.
- Quinn Perkins: These senators aren't going home without bagging a trophy. We need to do something.
- Huck: Well, she only told us not to lie. She didn't tell us we couldn't do other things.
- Quinn Perkins: Huck.
- Huck: I didn't say kill. You really need to let that go.
- Sally Langston: You don't have anything to drink, do you?
- David Rosen: I have water.
- Sally Langston: What about a wine cooler? Have you ever had a wine cooler?
- David Rosen: I have sisters, so, yes, I have. Amber! We need some wine coolers.
- David Rosen: With the president, it's different. When he has an affair, there's 300 million people in bed with him, the American public. There's also 100 senators and 435 members of congress. And they have to make sure the only thing he broke was his vows, make sure there's no quid pro quo, that there's favoritism, that every cent the White House may have paid Olivia Pope was for the professional services she rendered, and not her services in bed. So you're wrong. The one man, the only man in this country whom you can prosecute for sleeping around is Fitzgerald Grant.
- SS Agent Alex Radstone: [to Olivia] This is an adjustment, I understand. I like to think of us as, well, you've seen the dogs with the cones around their neck? We are those cones. We're annoying. You'll want to shake us off at first, and you will try, but we don't come off.