- Francis Underwood: Presidents who obsess over history obsess about their place in it, instead of forging it.
- Xander Feng: When you only talk business you stop appreciating beauty.
- Doug Stamper: I don't have much time for beauty.
- Xander Feng: That's a shame.
- Doug Stamper: When people like you smell flowers, some of us have to pull the weeds.
- Claire Underwood: What should we serve the Walkers?
- Francis Underwood: Cyanide.
- Claire Underwood: I'm saving that for dessert. What about a main course.
- Daniel Lanagin: I don't place my faith in any white man. Especially one that works for federal government.
- Francis Underwood: I am just like you, Dan. I know what it means to start from nothing, to have to fight your way...
- Daniel Lanagin: You know nothing about what it means to be me. Your version of nothing was light years ahead of where I started.
- Seth Grayson: You can pay me when I've gotten you what you want. I don't take half pay for a job half done.