Two minutes in the office and Tusk may be back in his good graces. I need to disrupt the nuptials and prevent a second marriage.
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You may have all the money, Raymond, but I have all the men with guns.
I'm a good Christian, Remy, like your mother. I would tell you the truth if you wanted more.
RDRemy Denton
You trying to send a message?
Perhaps.
RDRemy Denton
Which is?
That stubbornness is far costlier than obedience.
Presidents who obsess over history obsess over their place in it, instead of forging it.
GWGarret Walker
Who said that?
I did, just now.
DLDan Lanigan
You know what I like about money? I can stack it on a table, like this one. I can measure it with a yardstick. I can see it, smell it, buy things with it - houses, cars, clothes. Things that are real. You're going to have to show up with more than beads.
What should we serve the Walkers?
Cyanide.
I'm saving that for dessert. What about a main course?
XFXander Feng
When you only talk business you stop appreciating beauty.
I don't have much time for beauty.
XFXander Feng
That's a shame.
When people like you smell flowers, some of us have to pull the weeds.
You're nothing. You're a parasite.
So are you Danton. Just in a nicer suit.
MHMegan Hennessey
I'm not who you want to be your poster girl.
[advising President Walker regarding Linda's threat of resignation] Do I think she oversteps sometimes? Yes. Does she wrongly equate her advice with mine? Often. But the question that occurs to me is not about Linda. Let's say you refuse her resignation, if this gets out, and it could, won't you be sending a signal to anyone who works for you that you can be leveraged? She offered her resignation. She's already gone, even if she stays.
[following Linda's resignation] I've never thought higher of her than I do at this moment. She lost, but she played to win.
[to Seth] You think I've survived with the vice president so long by being blind? Upward mobility has a ceiling with the Underwoods. I'm the ceiling.
A little sibling rivalry isn’t such a bad thing, especially between adopted boys. They either push each other to be the best versions of themselves, or one of them gets booted back to the orphanage.
Please, let me help.
I ain't takin' your guilt money. When I was bangin', we used to clear 60 Gs a month. I seen guys shot down execution-style. I didn't give a shit. Then I got caught. Darnell was born my first year in. Never saw him once, not even a picture. I can't take back the bad I done. All I can do is to make my own way, like I been doin'. You understand. Ain't pride, Frank.
If you change your mind, you let me know.
You were a good customer, that's it. You ain't gotta pretend to be my friend.
Do you think I’m a hypocrite? Well you should. I wouldn’t disagree with you. The road to power is paved with hypocrisy, and casualties. Never regret.
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