No writer worth his salt can resist a good story, just as no politician can resist making promises he can't keep.
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
MCMichael Corrigan
Do you know what I've been asking myself ever since the hunger strike? Am I truly willing to die for this? I don't know the answer to that question, but at least I have something I care enough about to even ask the question. Have you asked that of yourself? What are you willing to die for?
There won't be a revolution because you freed one man.
Revolutions sneak up on you, one small step at a time. I can't ignore the smallest step.
[about Corrigan] He was a coward, and I'm glad he's dead.
He had more courage than you'll ever have.
Do you really wanna discuss courage, Claire? Because anyone can commit suicide, or spout their mouths off in front of a camera. You wanna know what takes courage? Keeping your mouth shut, no matter what you may be feeling. Holding it all together when the stakes are this high.
We're murderers, Francis.
No, we're not. We're survivors.
If we can't show respect for one brave man and still accomplish what we set out to do, then I'm disappointed in both of us.
I never should have made you ambassador.
I never should have made you president. [leaves]
[to the audience] What're you lookin' at?!
[to Frank about his marriage] Everything okay between you two?
You bet. [pause] Well, they've been better. [pause] No, it's not okay.
Are the AARP here?
In the lobby. The chairman told me they wanna support Dunbar.
They're just trying to rattle us.
Dunbar's promising to save Social Security, go after Wall Street and government waste instead of entitlements.
Well, get 'em in here.
Here's a list. The meeting's not for another 10 minutes.
Well, start bringing them in here. It'll take them that long to hobble over on their walkers.
I can't believe we've become this.
Become what?
Like everyone else.
Henry Mitchell, the new Senate Majority Leader. What happened to Hector Mendoza? Well, you don't declare a couple of paid speeches as income, and boom, you're no longer in Congress, and certainly not running for president. [pointing to Mitchell's portrait of Eisenhower] You got rid of Ronnie. Hector loved that painting.
HMHenry Mitchell
Oh, he's not gone, just in storage.
[to the audience] Just like Hector.
[about the America Works book] I think it may be the best thing I've written in years. It could also be utter and complete shit. But when I can't tell the difference, it's usually a good sign.
You'd better not fuck him over.
Excuse me?
With what you're writing.
I don't intend to.
The part about being foolish.
Were you eavesdropping?
He's not foolish.
That wasn't my point.
I wouldn't take a bullet for a man who was.
I never tried to swim to Fort Sumter. Thomas probably knows that I made it up, but he wrote about it anyway because he understands the greater truth: Imagination is its own form of courage.
[Baldwin and Yates have sex with a picture of Frank in the background]
Well, the president just saw me come.
HTHarlan Traub
Mr. President, I know you have a thousand things on your mind, but I would just love to talk to you about how to revolutionize the food processing industry here in Iowa.
[to the audience] Please, slit my wrists with his butter knife.
HTHarlan Traub
I'm used to talking to candidates, not chauffeurs.
I'm not a chauffeur.
HTHarlan Traub
Well, it's your hands on the wheel.
[Heather Dunbar receives a call from Frank Underwood in the Oval Office.]
Heather.
HDHeather Dunbar
Mr. President?
Doug Stamper is my friend and you came very close to killing him.
HDHeather Dunbar
Excuse me?
You're aware he's an alcoholic.
HDHeather Dunbar
Yes.
And how serious his injuries were.
HDHeather Dunbar
Mr. President—
But you still put him to work, a man who's trying to recover, who's trying to get back his life. Did you honestly think he could handle that?
HDHeather Dunbar
Douglas came to us.
And you should have turned him away, if you had one ounce of decency.
HDHeather Dunbar
What's happened? Is he okay?
You don't have the right to ask me that question. And if you do anything that endangers his health again, I swear to God, I will put you in your fucking grave.
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