Kat quotes from Madam Secretary

Kat

Ma'am, if I could put a finer point on it: Andrada is a chauvinist who is unlikely to meet with a woman whose last interaction left him with a deviated septum.

Kat

You know what? I was born this way. But I was also raised by a father who encouraged me to live life on my own terms, and that's exactly what I'm doing.

Kat

This is by far the best jail-centric vow-renewal after-party I've ever had the privilege of attending.

Kat

What's going on here?

Matt

You just got here, so you don't feel our pain.

Kat

Yeah, but I can empathize like nobody's business. Hit me.

Kat

Okay, human traffickers?

Jay

You're kidding.

Kat

Yeah, of course I'm kidding. They're the most evil monsters belched from Hell the earth has ever known. Although...

Jay

Stop. We may not have any legal options, but we're not going straight up immoral.

Kat

Oh, I like that. 'Different.' Yeah, I...yeah. Yeah, I had long hair, and, uh, wore dresses and heels and makeup, and, um, sometimes it felt like me. And sometimes...it felt like a costume I had to wear to survive, and gain access.

Jay

So what made you...this you?

Kat

I survived and gained access.

Kat

Donna!

I saw your email. I am late for a department meeting. Can we talk after?

Kat

Okay, okay, well, did you actually read my email? 'Cause I'm pretty sure a massacre takes precedent over a department meeting.

Kat

I'm just, I am staggered by your speed and persistence.

Blake

Well, they're my superpowers.

Blake

Did that work?

Matt

I don't know. I can't read that lady.

Daisy

Yeah, me neither. She's either chill...

Kat

Or she's gonna kill somebody.

Y'all can exit peaceably through the back without talking to any press, and I'll let you leave this state without incident.

Kat

Ha. Without incident?

Elizabeth

Look around, Governor. We passed that.

I suggest you get moving before I invite the good sheriff in here to come get you.

Elizabeth

Do you think you can intimidate me or shut me up?

Don't test Arizona justice ma'am.

Kat

Hey Jay. What's up?

Jay

I'm on a kind of painkiller.

Kat

Congratulations.

Jay

That brings me to our next topic, defining everyone's role in the campaign. Most of us will have the same title we now have at State.

Mike

With a much higher level of intensity. This isn't going to be some cushy conference in Geneva people. This is the longest marathon of your lives, running uphill the whole way with this woman's campaign agenda carved into your foreheads. You got me?

Kat

Are we joining a cult?

Matt

It sounds like a cult.

Jay

It's a team, and we're all in it together, so for now rest up, get your annual checkups and dentist appointments out of the way and try and enjoy the calm before the storm.

Mike

The fight of our lives.

Kat

Deputy Secretary, you should know that Secretary McCord and I take these allegations very seriously.

And, uh, you want to hear my side of the story, or have you done away with due process?

Kat

Oh, all of these allegations will be investigated fully if you decide to take this position.

What are you implying?

Kat

I am openly informing you that if an investigation confirms any of the actions as described in this document, then you will not become Acting Secretary of State. Furthermore, those determinations will most likely follow you in your next career, so... you may want to think carefully about your next move.

You know, I get that the rules have changed. But you need to look at my record. No one has been a bigger champion of women in this department. And I have taken bullets for this country, and now you're telling me that you're gonna run me out of town at dawn because a few women have no sense of humor?

Kat

It's a shocking violation, isn't it? To be confronted by something so unwelcome and disempowering at work? I'm pretty sure every woman in this document knows exactly how you feel.