Scandal (TV Series)

Dog-Whistle Politics (2015)

Tony Goldwyn: Fitzgerald Grant

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• Olivia Pope : [sitting with her computer]  I have at least 1,000 threats of rape here, just on this one site, from guys who are mad that I had the audacity to be born female and black.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Olivia, turn off the computer.

  Olivia Pope : Do you think if I told them I own a gun and that I've shot someone, they'd threaten to rape me? Do you think if I told them I've survived being kidnapped and tortured, they would get that their weak little misspellings barely make me blink? That I would welcome the chance to take out a little bit of PTSD on the next man who put his hands on me? You think they'd still want to...

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Turn off the computer now, or I will come over there, walk through all the reporters outside your building, and turn it off for you.

• President Fitzgerald Grant : It's Olivia's job as a fixer, to be smart, to be practical and unemotional. She makes the the smart move. In her office, the smart move is the only move that counts, but you know what? We don't work for Liv. I'm President of the United States. We work for the American people. The playbook is the Constitution. In my office, it's not about doing the smart thing. It's about doing the right thing.