Olivia Carolyn Pope quotes from Scandal

Olivia

We have one goal. To bring down my father and to shut down B613 for good. To do what is right. So you tell the truth and you tell the whole truth. No matter what happens. No matter who gets hurt

Olivia

I want you. I want us. But I want to slow down. I want our business handled. I want our problems fixed. I want to be ready before the world is watching. Once we're in that spotlight, being picked at and scrubbed and stretched in every direction, we will never get the chance to make things right. If we are broken going in, we’re not getting out, not together. They will destroy us. That's reality, Fitz.

Quinn

Ms. Pope... Can I just say I'm a huge fan? I so admire your work in the White House. It's an honor to work for your law firm.

Olivia

We're not a law firm. We're lawyers, but this is not a law firm.

Stephen

Law firms are for pansies.

Olivia

Harrison feed you a line about being a gladiator in a suit?

Harrison

Liv...

Quinn

He did. And I'm ready. To gladiate. Or...whatever.

Olivia

I can have a reporter out here in twenty minutes. With cameras. Asking why you are persecuting an innocent, handicapped, Congressional Medal of Honor winner. Perhaps because he's a well-known conservative Republican and you are considering a bid on the Democratic ticket next year? Just to be clear? That was me threatening you.

David

You have until morning.

Olivia

36 hours.

David

24 hours.

Olivia

Sold. Pleasure to see you again.

Olivia

He's not wooing me. We're friends.

Stephen

You and I are friends. He's the leader of the Free World.

David

I'm the good guy. The law is on my side. I am the law. The law is me. I work for justice. I uphold the Constitution of these United States. I am a knight for the people. I wear the white hat, and you, Olivia Carolyn Pope, you are a pain in my ass. I had a search warrant for that house, but by the time I got to use it, there was nothing there. Because your people took whatever there was to find.

Olivia

Hello, David. Good to see you. Did you get a haircut? It's nice.

Billy

Maybe this won't come out.

Olivia

It's a dirty little secret. And dirty little secrets always come out.

You think they'll get past this?

Olivia

I don't know how they can.

I think that those two people want to be together. I think that love, at the end of the day, is stronger than some mistake somebody made. Something they did that they regret. I think that love allows for forgiveness.

Quinn

So we lost? I mean what happens when we lose? We're just done?

Olivia

We're never done. If we lose this round, we prep him for appeal. If we lose that, we prep him for a second appeal, because whatever happens, there's always another move. Whatever happens, we do not give up. It is my name on that door, and I do not give up.

Cyrus

I never took you for the "hell hath no fury" type. It's a little trashy, but... So is having an affair with a married man.

Olivia

You want to be careful, Cyrus, with how you speak to me. Because I might forget that we are friends.

Stephen

Whatever it is, we will fix it.

Olivia

You should have seen me forcing water down her throat to make her pee. It was like something out of Abu Ghraib.

Stephen

Let me get this clear. Amanda Tanner is...?

Olivia

Pregnant with the President's baby. Yes.

James

He doesn't work on Sunday unless there's a war. Is there a war?

Olivia

Somewhere in the world, there's always a war.

James

When my husband's dead, I'm blaming you.

Olivia

[lecturing Fitz after watching him practice for the New Hampshire debate] People want to like who they're voting for. People thought Al Gore was a big stiff until he stuck his tongue down Tipper's throat. They put George W. in office because he and Laura seemed like a fun couple to have a beer with. People have to want to invite you in for dinner. Right now, you and your wife are standing in their doorway, three feet apart, not looking at each other, letting in the cold air. That's why you lost Iowa. It's why you'll lose New Hampshire.

And you are?

Olivia

Olivia. Pope.

Just say my name.

Olivia

That's crossing the line. It would be inappropriate.

Then let's be inappropriate. Say my name.

Olivia

[after a long beat] Fitz.