Olivia Carolyn Pope quotes from Scandal

Olivia

I know you're mad at me. But we both care about Harrison. And he would want us to...

Abby

Harrison would've wanted all kinds of things. He would've wanted you to not get on that plane. He would've wanted you to not leave his side so that God knows what could happen to him. He would've wanted you to care about him before someone put a bullet in his brain. He would've wanted his champion, his gladiator to be here, fighting for him when there was still a chance he could've been found alive. But now he's dead. Harrison doesn't want anything now!

Olivia

Cyrus, you know I'm not afraid of the I.R.S.

Cyrus

I'll tell him you call every day. I'll tell him you call, asking about him every day, that you're pining for him. Sorry to be such a bastard, Liv. Craving meat really brings out the worst in me.

Rowan

Re-entry is always hard. You emerged from deep cover. I mean, it wasn't covert ops. You weren't a spy. But I know the feeling. I know it very well. You come back, you re-enter to find the world kept spinning without you. You go to the places you used to go and you see the people you used to see and it's like something is missing. But really, everything is missing. Somehow everything is different. Everything is...

Olivia

Colder. Everything is colder.

Maybe I find a convent in Switzerland and stick her in it.

Olivia

That did not work when my father tried it with me.

Olivia

Burying yourself in work isn't always the best thing when you lose someone.

Running away isn't the best thing either.

Olivia

I'm working. I'm gladiating.

Quinn

You're getting your expensive pants dirty. What are you doing here?

Rowan

We're not normal...

Olivia

Even if we were, normal people don't talk about...normal fathers and daughters don't...

Huck

I pinged all of Jake's IP interfaces for the last two days which landed me in a geo-location data stream. Then I ran that through my QR-9 knock off and from there it was easy. He might of been wearing a cowbell.

Olivia

There's not a single word in that sentence I understood. Except cowbell.

Abby

I cannot cry in the White House.

Olivia

You can cry if you want to.

Abby

Press secretaries can't cry! It's, like, a rule!

Olivia

I need you to get me into super-max.

David

Liv, it's a super-max prison. They added the word "super" to the already quite clear "maximum security. " Dahmer was in super-max. That place holds people who eat people. And you want to what, just waltz in there wearing all your white stuff, have a seat in one of the cells, and drink tea with Jake? This isn't jailhousemingle.com. You can't just visit Jake. Hell no. There are clearances, protocols, rules. You already have a plan, don't you? I've been Poped and I don't know it.

You think you have a father? I am so sorry but you don't have a father. You have Command. You were raised by Command. Command doesn't have a family. Command has soldiers. You take orders like any other soldier. You've been taking orders from Command since the day you were born.

Olivia

My father is not a God. He is a man.

Olivia

I wasn't aware we were on speaking terms, Dad, let alone having dinner.

Rowan

We are family, Olivia. Families fight. That's what they do. That doesn't mean you stop calling. That doesn't mean you stop showing up for dinner. When we fight, we forgive and forget.

Jake

You could let me rot in here. Be easy. Solve all your problems. I mean, I did tell him that you loved me too, but I was just messing with his head. All you have to do is just turn your head and then you and that Fitz guy can just dance off into the sun.

Olivia

Don't ever talk about me and the sun and another man again. Don't ever do that. Okay?

There's a special place in Hell for women who don't support other women.

Olivia

There's a special place in Hell for women who spout that tired quote to justify their bad behavior.

Olivia

You're not leaving. You were never leaving. You can never leave me alone because you have no place to go. The only life you have is the sad, twisted one you built here. The one where you lurk int he shadows, pull puppet strings, and pretend the world couldn't exist without your protection. You can't disappear, become a normal person, because Dad, you are not normal. You are a sick, lonely man who only knows how to lie and call it love.

Rowan

Could you be more ungrateful? You're my flesh. There would be no Olivia Pope if not for me.