CChip
With no drilling, there's no gas. With no gas, there's no future.
Elizabeth': Your company has been saying that for thirty years, Chip, and it is as false now as it was then.
CChip
Yeah, well, the money's just as green.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Chip Harding is no longer our sponsor.
Because of Bella Rossi?
Because I refused to endorse Arctic drilling. And I may also have mentioned his company's long history of hiding data and denying climate change. And violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, so that probably did it.
She just wanted their first time to be special and romantic, and I guess Jason went along with the plan, right down to Luther Vandross and chocolate covered strawberries
It's like they wanted to have sex in the 80s.
NNeal
So, I wanted to ask you, uh, about the impact of the job on your family. [Elizabeth's phone buzzes]
I am so sorry, I have to take this.
And there you pretty much have it. Pasta?
[to reporter] I'm Blake Moran, assistant to the Secretary and the best snacks are one flight down. I hope that's not classified.
AAmina
It can't be that hard, writing a positive profile?
NNeal
You can't a drawing without shadows. Not a good one.
I don't need to ask what the meaning of life is, because I already know.
You do? Well, hey, I'm all ears.
Be good to the people you love, work hard at the things you care about.
Well, that's great, except it's killing you.
[pointing at a pastry] To be clear, that's the last I wanna see of that today.
No purse muffin?!
You're still planning to fire me in six months?
I fire because I love. Move up or move out, Blake.
This whole ordeal has reminded me of the importance of civic duty. It's reaffirmed my faith in the process, you know?
I do.
We got this enormous thing done, Henry, and I feel a responsibility to make sure it doesn't get undone. When the time comes...I want to run for president.
I know.
I'm just, I am staggered by your speed and persistence.
Well, they're my superpowers.
Okay, let's use the Socratic method.
Oh, please, no.
Why the hell would we declassify any of it?
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Yes, and it causes cancer, too.
GGordon
I know you're the Dalton whisperer, but now you're getting into --
Excuse me, what?
GGordon
Oh, come on, Elizabeth. Everybody knows you play the friend card with him.
Really? I'm just trying to decide if that's more insulting to me or POTUS.
Look where isolationism has gotten us in the past. Two world wars. Seventy million dead. Never again can we go back to those dark times when fear and hatred, like a contagion, infected the world.
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