- Francis Underwood: No writer worth his salt can resist a good story, just as a politician can't resist making promises he can't keep.
- Doug Stamper: You need someone who's willing to do the things that people like her won't do.
- Heather Dunbar: You asked me for a job. You said you wanted to turn over a new leaf.
- Doug Stamper: I have a certain skill-set, Miss Dunbar. For me, turning over a new leaf is using my skills for the right reasons. Like putting you in office.
- Alexi Moryakov: [to Claire] You have no business being Ambassador any more than I have being First Lady.
- [walks to the door]
- Alexi Moryakov: That's a very nice dress, by the way.
- Francis Underwood: Whoever you are, whoever you think you are, believe that you're also a silent princess. Your name is Ida. Your journey is one through a forgotten landscape of twisting staircases and morphing castles, atop floating stones defiantly crossing an angry sea, within dimly-lit caverns cobwebbed with ruins MC Escher could only grasp at in a dream state.