Fitz quotes from Scandal

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.

You killed my son. I am going to have you destroyed. I'm going to watch you fry in the electric chair and I'm going to have a party when it happens.

Jake

You are a decent human being. You are a good person. I know this because she loves you. If you were not a good person you would be down here pummeling my face in. I would not be in the possession of a government agency. I would be in a ditch somewhere. No one would be worried about the timeline of my food and drink. I would be in an unmarked grave by now.

Andrew

So tell me, Mr. President. What's the one thing in the world that you can't live without? The one thing that you'd do everything in your power to get back?

What did you do to her? What did you do?

Andrew

Tell me, Mr. President. How you liking that war now?

He was a nice boy. But he was a boy. And you are a man, a great man, and I had to choose between a nice boy and a great man, and I chose the great man, and I am not sorry about that. I am proud of that. He was a sacrifice. I am a sacrifice. There are sacrifices that need to be made for greatness, brush that needs to be cleared for the path of history.

I need to know who I can trust in the White House.

Is that why you're here?

Yes. In my detail, who can I trust? Where can I speak privately?

The face that launched a thousand ships.

What?

Helen of Troy. Menelaus got her back, but it took him ten years of war. Will you launch a thousand ships to save Ms. Pope?

We have to get Olivia back, not just because I love her, not just because having her out there is a threat to national security. There are soldiers who are never coming home because I tried to get her back. Someone's father, someone's husband. I have killed so many mothers' sons trying to get her back. The flags placed on the coffins where they lay are there because they had the courage to give their lives and I did not have the courage to give Liv's, so she has to come back because their sacrifice damn well has to mean something. They cannot have died for nothing. They cannot have gone to their death for no other reason than I asked them to.

Cyrus

We will get her back. I promise you sir, I will do everything in my power to make sure we get her back.

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.

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.

Mellie

A story broke about a young naval officer who had been raped. And now the only thing people want to ask me about is whether or not my husband is going to intervene on her behalf. Can I assume, because we're not monsters, that the answer is yes? Fitz?

I can't intervene. It would send the wrong message.

Mellie

It would tell the world that we don't condone rape.

It's good to have you back, Cy.

Cyrus

I serve at the pleasure of the President. The honor is all mine.

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.

I hate that you're always right.

Olivia

Me too.

We tried.

Olivia

We did.