Olivia Carolyn Pope quotes from Scandal

Olivia

What happened?

Mellie

You let that girl get into his pants! You left the team, Liv! You fell down on the job! You broke his heart, and you left him open and vulnerable and helpless. And that is how that snake Billy Chambers got that shiny red Amanda apple right into Fitz's hand. I do my job. I smile, and I push him, and I make sure he has what he needs. I do my job. Why couldn't you do yours?

Ms. Pope, you did it again.

Olivia

The President has a great team.

Nah. Don't give me that. Listen, I don't exactly know what you do or how you do it. But when you walk through these gates, things start happening. The press starts falling in line, the Secret Service gets extra secret, and the problems... they just kinda disappear. And when you go back out, everyone's breathing a little bit easier.

Olivia

How are you?

I'm serving out my sentence in the crown jewel of the American prison system. How are you?

Edison

I took an oath to do the exact opposite of what you're asking me to do.

Olivia

You always did put your career above all.

Edison

Takes one to know one.

Olivia

Huck, you didn't...

Huck

I didn't hurt him. Much.

Verna

Liv, I've seen you two together. You breathe in sync.

Olivia

You have a very active imagination.

Verna

The stuff we did, it never goes away, does it? Like one big, bloody hospital gown.

Olivia

I prefer to think that anything can be fixed.

Verna

Then you're a fool.

Edison

I can stop dropping by, I can stop calling, I can stop asking. But you never tell me to stop.

Olivia

Edison, I don't want you to stop. I want you to keep asking. But I'm not ready to say yes.

Olivia

I don't like it when the bad guys get away.

Cyrus

Then you shouldn't have come to Washington.

Harrison

What do you need? Whatever it is that's going on, whatever it is that you're thinking about when you're sitting in here all by yourself, tell me what you need and I will do it, no matter what.

Olivia

You don't want to get involved.

Olivia

You want Edison to win, why?

Cyrus

Because that means he's over you. I get my president back. Hey, you asked.

Olivia

I smile at her and take off my clothes for you. I wait for you. I watch for you. My whole life is you. I can’t breathe because I’m waiting for you. You own me, you control me, I belong to you-

You own me! You control me. I belong to you. You think I don't want to be a better man? You think that I don’t want to dedicate myself to my marriage? You don’t think I want to be honorable? To be the man you voted for? I love you. I’m in love with you. You're the love of my life. My every feeling is controlled by the look on your face. I can’t breathe without you. I can’t sleep without you. I wait for you, I watch for you. I exist for you. If I could escape all of this and run away with you? There's no Sally and Thomas here. You're nobody's victim, Liv. I belong to you. We're in this together.

Olivia

Mellie's let me visit him exactly once and then she revoked my privileges. I might not even get to say goodbye.

Cyrus

I'm going to say this once, and I better not ever have to say it again. Don't you ever again suggest to me that Fitzgerald Thomas Grant the Third is going to die. That is unacceptable coming from you. He calls you the love of his life. Don't you dare give up on him.

Olivia

He's lying in a hospital room fighting for his life and he had nothing to do with how he got elected. He's a patriot and he's legitimate.

Verna

We're both in hospital rooms. Karma is a funny thing. We're paying the price for what we did.

Edison

Olivia, if that letter from President Grant was forged, there will be joint congressional hearings and letters of impeachment. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court will turn the Senate chamber into a courtroom, and you will be the star witness for the prosecution. Forging that letter, or helping whoever did, would be staging a coup. It is an act of domestic terrorism.

Olivia

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Edison

I am the leader of the Senate. If my job description requires, I won't hesitate to prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. And guess what? I make the law. So you talk it over with whomever you need to talk it over with and you let me know when the President is ready to see me.

Olivia

Goodbye, Edison.