Claire Underwood quotes from House of Cards

Frank Underwood

Stay with me. It's us against them. Always. Otherwise, what's the goddamn point?

Claire Underwood

I can't do it, Francis. I can't come back and be First Lady.

Frank Underwood

Not that. Not that. I said you were nothing in the Oval without me. It's the other way around.

Claire Underwood

[about Yates] You felt something for him.

Frank Underwood

Maybe for a moment. Did you?

Claire Underwood

No, I don't think so. I felt... I felt like he saw me.

Frank Underwood

Me too.

Do you regret it, not having children? Oh, I'm sorry. That's too personal.

Claire Underwood

Do you ever regret having them?

Claire Underwood

We can't fight everything off one by one, Francis. But if we make this - we make it work for us.

Frank Underwood

Create chaos...

Claire Underwood

More than chaos.

Frank Underwood

War...

Claire Underwood

Fear.

Frank Underwood

Fear. Brutal. Total.

Claire Underwood

I'm done trying to win over people's hearts.

Frank Underwood

Let's attack their hearts.

Claire Underwood

We can work with fear.

Frank Underwood

Yes, we can.

Tom Yates

Is it true, what Hammerschmidt wrote?

Claire Underwood

No.

Tom Yates

That's the first time you've lied to me... since you stopped lying to me.

Claire Underwood

What did the girl say to you?

Frank Underwood

She said she hopes I die, and that you become the president.

Frank Underwood

Look down, straight down, across the lawn. Right to the gate. You see them? Those people want a voice. Some for, some against. And they're looking back across the lawn, toward the windows, and they're thinking, "I wonder what the President and the First Lady are doing tonight? And will they be able to protect us?"

Claire Underwood

I should have been there.

Frank Underwood

Where?

Claire Underwood

When you got shot. I wish I had been there. Maybe I could have protected you.

Frank Underwood

You see, all those people want is for someone to keep them from what they're afraid to know.

Tom Yates

What's my role?

Claire Underwood

What?

Tom Yates

What am I to you, anyway? Or you, to me? I mean, are you my girlfriend? And when you win does that make me, like, First Boyfriend? First Concubine?

Tom Yates

How's the president doing?

Claire Underwood

He's acting like he's still 30 years old. We both are.

Tom Yates

Is that good or bad?

Claire Underwood

That depends on if we win or lose.

Claire Underwood

No regrets. No matter what.

Frank Underwood

What does that mean? What does that mean, "no matter what"? You think we're going to lose.

Claire Underwood

No. No.

Frank Underwood

Are we together?

Claire Underwood

Yes, we're together, no matter what.

Frank Underwood

No, not no matter what. Are we together?

Claire Underwood

We're together, Francis.

Frank Underwood

Then don't ever bring up losing in front of me again.

Claire Underwood

You're a fool, Donald. You always were. You and your dumb, dead wife who you never, ever shut up about. Principled? Idealistic? A champion of the people? What did you ever actually do? Nothing. The great crusader? I don't think so. You just liked the position of the bumbling idiot that you are. The optimist. The idealist. You liked it so much that you couldn't even make a deal or move a single thing forward. You have a legacy of nothing. Sign the measure, get the Republicans off the floor, start the vote now.

Donald Blythe

Do you know what I just realized? Your initials. They're missing an "n" and a "t".

Claire Underwood

We brought this on ourselves. We pushed too hard.

Frank Underwood

We've survived.

Claire Underwood

We isolated ourselves, Francis.

Frank Underwood

So what? We both know something the rest of the world refuses to acknowledge. There is no justice, only conquest. And let me tell you, we let them evacuate DC, we are done, Claire. We've lost.

Claire Underwood

What's the worst thing you've ever done?

Tom Yates

It's hard to pick.

Claire Underwood

I'm serious.

Tom Yates

So am I. [pause] Pretending to love someone when I didn't. In a way, that was the worst.

Claire Underwood

Did the person know?

Tom Yates

[shakes his head] She pretended not to know. But she knew. It was awful for her, but I paid for that mistake, too. These types of things, they take a toll.

Claire Underwood

It's strange how some choices mean nothing, and others govern the rest of your life. We've done some terrible things.

Tom Yates

You don't have to tell me.

Claire Underwood

Francis killed Zoe Barnes.

Tom Yates

Claire...

Claire Underwood

Francis killed Peter. And so many more are going to die.

Tom Yates

Stop. [kisses her] You don't scare me.

Claire Underwood

I should.

Claire Underwood

There has to be a way out, Francis.

Frank Underwood

[to audience] Does there? Is there? Or is this my presidency: Forever with a target on my back, haunted and hunted.

[discussing threats on Claire's life] There are a lot of threats involving the C-word, ma'am. Lots and lots of the C-word, unfortunately.

Claire Underwood

[wryly] You mean "Claire"?