David Rosen quotes from Scandal

David

You just expect me to bend the law for you once again out of blind faith and admiration. You pour a good bourbon, Olivia, but so does the dive bar down the street.

David

This doesn't make us even. Not even close. And it won't stop me from coming after you, guns blazing, both barrels, if it looks, as I strongly suspect, that you were involved in illegal activity, or worse, if you try to screw me again. In that case, God help you.

David

This isn't a normal trial, Mr. President. It's a political trial. Congress is prosecutor and judge and jury. They decide what an impeachable offense is, and they decide if you've committed one. If you survive these hearings, you're still president. If you don't, you're not. You need to talk to a lawyer.

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.

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.

David

What's the one thing we know about Olivia Pope?

Well, she's well-dressed. She's a workaholic...

David

Olivia Pope doesn't use her magic for evil. She uses it for good. Olivia Pope doesn't move Heaven and Earth and further corrupt the justice system unless she knows at the end of the day she can put on the white hat and ride out of town.

David

How much do I owe you?

Olivia

What?

David

For your services? Or did you take a commission when I sold my soul to the Devil?

Huck

It's just math.

David

Math?

Huck

You hire us. We negotiate the ransom. Make an untraceable payment. Retrieve the victim. Safe and sound. We've never lost a client. Not once. You call the cops you get a rescue team, dogs, body armor, the works. Now, you don't spend any of your own money but the victim's chance of survival drops to 50% in a rescue scenario. So if I wanted to see my loved one alive, I wouldn't call the cops. I'd call us. Every time.

David

Gladiators in helmets, right?

Harrison

Suits.

Cyrus

Now you listen to me...

David

No, you listen to me. I may not have the Cytron card anymore, but I do have my conscience. And there's a hell of a lot of noise I can make if I don't think you're worthy of the moral sacrifice I made.

Abby

Normal boyfriends do favors for their girlfriends.

David

Normal girlfriends don't dabble in aiding and abetting.

Jake

Rosen, I killed three people right in front of you. I am not a good guy.

David

Deep down, I think you are.

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.

Huck

Where's Jake?

David

It's just the two of us. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. You can be Newman. I'm fine with Redford.

David

Does this mean you're in?

Jake

I was never out, Rosen. But this means war, you know that, right? We're the good guys, but you won't always be able to tell. That's what it's going to take.