Olivia Carolyn Pope quotes from Scandal

Olivia

Who are you, Cy?

Cyrus

Liv...

Olivia

Who are you, Cy?!

Cyrus

Liv!

Olivia

Who are you, Cy?

Cyrus

I am one of the most powerful men in the world.

Olivia

Who are you!?

Cyrus

I am one of the most powerful men in the world.

Olivia

Oh, yeah? So you're not a bitch baby?

Cyrus

I run this country. I'm nobody's bitch baby.

Olivia

I don't know. You still sound like a little bitch baby to me.

Cyrus

I am not a little bitch baby!

Olivia

Then show me! Prove it to me right now! Show me who you are, Cyrus Beene!

Olivia

If you gave up the Presidency, what did I do all this for? Everything we did, I did, all of it, if you gave up the Presidency it would be a waste. Everything I've sacrificed to get you here, to keep you here, so you could be the best, so you could make history, so you could be the President you were meant to be. And you were. You were the President you were meant to be and then, when the true test came along, when I was taken because of you, you go to war? You sent thousands of innocent soldiers into harms way, some of them to their deaths, for one person.

I had to save you.

Olivia

You didn't save me. I'm on my own.

Marcus

Help us get justice.

Olivia

You don't want justice. You want anger. You want outrage. You want retribution.

Marcus

You're right. I do. So should you.

When did you become so weak?

Olivia

Weak?

Weak. Afraid. You're Olivia Pope. In political circles, that's like saying you've been to the moon. You've stood on the mountaintop. You make Rumsfeld look like a nanny that's how badass you are. You and Ruth Bader Ginsburg... that's it. That's all we got. The power you wield in this town, Olivia, it's legend. You used to exude it. It came out of every pore. It gave other women a contact high. So, I must admit I'm a little disappointed by your behavior towards me.

Olivia

I'm trying to protect you.

Protect me? That's... that's awful. I thought you'd be brave.

Olivia

Sue...

What happened to you? Where did your power go? When did you become so afraid of life? I'm not ashamed. This is my life, my body, my story to sell or tell or anyway, it's all I've got now. Okay? So, go ahead and call me a whore. Everyone who writes a memoir is a whore. You can also call me an author, an artist, a businesswoman. You can call me smart, and pretty soon, you can call me successful.

Olivia

It's all in the rear view for me. I need to move forward. I am moving forward.

Cyrus

Moving forward? Towards what?

Cyrus

It sounds like a shotgun wedding.

Olivia

It is. And you're the pregnant bride.

Olivia

Cyrus must be loving this.

Abby

He's like a stormchaser in a van hurling down the highway, face pressed up against the windshield, grinning wildly, waiting for everything to go to Hell and wanting to be there when it does.

Olivia

I've been in that van.

Olivia

That's why you're calling? To ask for my advice about your wife?

I want to hear what you think.

Olivia

What I think? I think you're supposed to be an optimist.

Boo, I'm living out the rest of my days in this cell. You call that winning?

Olivia

You could have killed him if you wanted to. So I want to know. How did you do it?

You sure do love a problem.

Olivia

I don't know what you're...

You're so vain. It's always about you, isn't it? The problems you create so that you can solve them. The power you have to wield so that you can feel important. Did your father and I not tell you you were special enough when you were little? Did we not give you enough hugs? Aww, baby. This uppity fantasy world you've decided to be a part of it's not real, boo. Now you need to come on back down to this planet. Where the world doesn't revolve around you.

Olivia Pope, are you the President's mistress?

Olivia

[after a long pause] Yes.

And what about getting involved with the president in the first place? Do you regret that?

Olivia

I wish I never laid eyes on him.

Abby

If you take the stand, you could end up going to jail.

Olivia

And if I get married? What in the hell do you think this is?

You know how embarrassing that was? How awkward I felt asking my valets to scatter rose petals everywhere? Telling them to light all these damn candles? Can you honestly stand there and tell me that you think that I actually wanted to do this? Nobody wants to do this! No man ever wants to do this. Of course no man ever wants to do this.

Olivia

So why did you do it?

Because I love you. Because you are what I want. But obviously, you don't feel the same.

Olivia

Cyrus, Fitz and I together... we have an actual relationship. This is what a couple looks like.

Cyrus

You have the Oval. This is what power looks like. He's not the President anymore, Olivia. You are.

Olivia

I believe him. My gut says he is telling the truth.

Jake

Of course you do. Otherwise you'd just be a fool with daddy issues.