- Harrison Wright: I'm not a baby lawyer. I'm a gladiator in a suit. Because that's what you are when you work for Olivia. You're a gladiator in a suit. Do you want to be a gladiator in a suit? You gotta say it.
- Quinn Perkins: I want to be a gladiator in a suit.
- Olivia Pope: He's not wooing me, we're friends.
- Stephen Finch: You and I are friends. He's the leader of the free world. Your life makes me feel unsuccessful.
- Quinn Perkins: We've been here all night. Don't you people ever sleep? Don't any of you have husbands? Wives? Kids? Lives?
- Harrison Wright: No.
- Quinn Perkins: Oh.
- Harrison Wright: Gladiator in a suit.
- Huck: Olivia Pope fixes things. That's who she is. You need fixing. I don't need to know your story. Everyone in this office needs fixing. You're a stray dog and Olivia took you in. Don't question it.
- [first lines]
- Quinn Perkins: [rapid fire banter] Harrison Wright?
- Harrison Wright: Quinn Perkins.
- Quinn Perkins: I can't stay.
- Harrison Wright: What are you drinking?
- Quinn Perkins: I can't stay. I'm sorry. I only came because Lori wouldn't give me your number so I could cancel, and I didn't want you to be waiting here because getting stood up in this particular bar is like falling face-down on a runway. And even though I don't know you, Lori's got this annoying habit of meddling, so it seemed only decent...
- Harrison Wright: What are you drinking?
- Quinn Perkins: I can't stay is what I'm saying. I don't do blind dates.
- Harrison Wright: My parents met on a blind date. They've been inseparable ever since.
- Quinn Perkins: I'm happy for your parents and for you, because it means you exist, but I don't do blind dates.
- Harrison Wright: This isn't a blind date.
- Quinn Perkins: What?
- Harrison Wright: It's a job interview. What are you drinking?
- Quinn Perkins: Dirty martini. What do you mean this is a job interview?
- Harrison Wright: This is a job interview.
- Quinn Perkins: You're a baby lawyer. You're 12 years old.
- Harrison Wright: I am 28 years old.
- Quinn Perkins: Why aren't we sitting in an office in a law firm?
- Harrison Wright: Because that's not how we do job interviews.
- Quinn Perkins: I didn't apply for a job with you.
- Harrison Wright: You did.
- Quinn Perkins: I didn't.
- Harrison Wright: You did.
- Quinn Perkins: I didn't. Okay, you know what? This has been whatever, but I don't do blind dates, so...
- Harrison Wright: Ask me who I work for.
- Amanda Tanner: He told me he loved me. He gave me this dog.
- Olivia Pope: See, it's those kind of lies that could hurt you if you said them to other people people not as nice as me. I'll give you some free advice. Hand in your resignation and pack up your dog and your things and get in your car and go. Find a small city Minneapolis, maybe, or Denver, get a little job, meet a boring boy, make some friends. Because in this town, your career is over. You're done.
- Amanda Tanner: Why are you doing this to me? I'm a good person.
- Olivia Pope: You know who else was a good person? Monica Lewinsky. And she was telling the truth, but she still got destroyed.
- [last lines]
- Cyrus Beene: Nice work on Sully St. James. Well, he wants to see you.
- Olivia Pope: Tell him to go to hell.
- Cyrus Beene: I'm just the messenger.
- Olivia Pope: You tell him that he better hope to God that Amanda Tanner doesn't want to come forward with her story, because she just became my client.
- Sully St. James: [on television] I am honored to have served my country. I am honored to have been injured serving my country. And just as importantly, I am honored to be a gay man who served my country.
- David Rosen: Olivia, you don't have the muscle of the White House behind you anymore. You're just a private citizen, who is, by the way, annoying.
- Olivia Pope: He's a decorated war hero. He's a patriot. You realize the blow-back you'll get for rushing to judgment on a patriot?
- David Rosen: The blowback *you'll* create?
- Olivia Pope: Well, yeah. That's my job.
- David Rosen: Do you actually have the naivete to believe that waking me in the middle of the night and threatening me is the correct path to getting your way?
- Olivia Pope: I wasn't threatening you. He didn't kill her. My gut says he didn't.
- David Rosen: Your spidey senses aren't evidence. I've been on the phone with homicide. He killed her and ran.
- Olivia Pope: I can have a reporter out here in 20 minutes, with cameras, asking why you are persecuting an innocent, handicapped 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.
- Olivia Pope: Marry the girl. Be normal.
- Stephen Finch: You can't just... you're bullying me.
- Olivia Pope: As long as I've known you, you've dated a series of women I can only describe as trashy and too young for you and most of all, stupid. Georgia is funny and fun and old enough and brilliant, and you know you want to marry her. We all know you want to marry her, so pick a damn ring already so we can go find an alibi for Sully St. James.
- Olivia Pope: The rules have changed. Don't ask, don't tell is over.
- Sully St. James: That is talk! I am a conservative republican! I am publicly anti-gay! I am a deacon in my church. They're talking about me running for Congress one day. I am Lieutenant Colonel Sullivan St. James. I'm a hero. I can't be gay.
- Olivia Pope: [about his 'cold feet'] If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, but you have to try, because if you try, if you leap and you try, and it doesn't work out, it's not on you.
- Stephen Finch: It's not on me.
- Olivia Pope: You can do this.
- Stephen Finch: Okay. Okay. I can do this.
- Olivia Pope: Go. Be happy. Get some normal.
- Quinn Perkins: You said we were the good guys.
- Harrison Wright: We are.
- Quinn Perkins: Really? I mean, is Olivia is she one of the good guys?
- Harrison Wright: No. She's not one of the good guys. She's the best guy. It's not enough to say it. You gotta believe it.
- Quinn Perkins: Gladiators in suits...
- Harrison Wright: That's what I'm talking about.