House of Cards (TV Series)
Chapter 33 (2015)
Kevin Spacey: Francis Underwood
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Quotes
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Francis Underwood : [giving his radio address] We honor the dead for giving us the world we inherited. However, we must recognized we are doomed if we allow the dead to govern us.
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Francis Underwood : Hard work is only worth it in the right conditions.
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Francis Underwood : We don't fight often, but this one - the scab keeps coming off.
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Francis Underwood : You don't know what it's like to go through life looking over your shoulder, having secrets no one would understand.
Thomas Yates : I didn't write my first book. My friend, the one who died...
Francis Underwood : He wrote it?
Thomas Yates : The first half. He didn't show it to anyone except me. In the hospital, he asked me to destroy it. I told him I would. It was too good. It needed to be finished. So I finished it.
Francis Underwood : And took all the credit.
Thomas Yates : Oh yeah. It's my part, the ending, that's what people remember. But the book, my entire career... It's all based on a lie. You don't have a monopoly on secrets.