Blake Moran quotes from Madam Secretary

Blake

It's tragically ironic, isn't it. The thing I'm good at I can no longer do and the thing I can do I'm not good at. What do you think?

I think you're a nut job, but I also know you got what it takes or you wouldn't be here. You just need some confidence. Like my mom used to say, if you hide your light under a bushel you'll walk into walls. She also said sanitation was a good field.

Blake

How about a practice interview?

Jay

I don't think you need that.

Blake

Please, it'll push me over the top.

Jay

You're already over the top.

Blake

Please, Jay, I gotta kill this. When M. Sec sits down with me she's got to think I'm the second coming of... well, me.

Matt

Was that Win Barrington?

Nina

Yes. He's been trying to get in to see Jay.

Matt

No, what he's trying to do is circumvent Jay's assistant because he thinks you're a loophole. Blake!

Blake

Hmm?

Matt

Tell Nina someone's trying to loophole her.

Blake

I'm sorry?

Nina

He says he's a representative of a wellness advocacy group.

Matt

Wellness advocacy. It's Win Barrington trying to lobby Jay to legalize pot.

Blake

Ah, yes.

Matt

See, part of your job is to sandbag dudes like this who think they can work around the gatekeepers and waste everybody's time with vaporizers and bongs. Dude's a clown. Blake'll fill you in. (walks away)

Blake

Okay. Win was Daisy's fiancee. She broke up with him to start dating Matt. Well, actually, they were already secretly dating.

Nina

Oh...

Blake

By the way, I'm reading you in on classified information.

Nina

Oh yeah, no problem.

Blake

So on election night a few years ago, Matt was making a play for Daisy, but she went home with Win instead, so what you are looking at now is--

Nina

Two alphas, neither of whom ended up with the girl. Got it. So go ahead and make the appointment for Jay?

Blake

Oh. God, no. Win's a ridiculous pot lobbyist. I just thought you'd be interested in the gossip.

For a seventh-floor type, you really have a big heart.

Blake

Too big, or so I've been told.

Blake

Tell me that's ginger ale.

I appreciate the concern, I guess, but how about we take a raincheck on whatever this is?

Matt

This is your Sunday look?

Blake

Elegance has no schedule.

Matt

Hey, is anyone going to say anything?

Daisy

Like what? "Congratulations on your affair with the president."

Blake

Wait. We don't really think it happened, do we?

Daisy

I think it's none of our business, and, no, I don't think it happened.

Matt

You see Carrot Top's tweet?

Blake

You follow Carrot Top?

Stevie

So the world is ending and we're all screwed.

Blake

Which we've established.

Stevie

So what's the one thing you would do before it all collapses?

Elizabeth

Just for one night, can we not think about fundraising or votes? Come on. This event actually has the potential to be fun.

Blake

You might be in the wrong profession ma'am.

Elizabeth

I said one night, Blake, I'm not having a vocational crisis.

Blake

Good to know.

Elizabeth

How is she doing?

Blake

You know in Wonder Woman when she fights off bullets with her bracelets? Like that.