Scandal (TV Series)

The Miseducation of Susan Ross (2016)

Kerry Washington: Olivia Pope

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Sally Langston : Each candidate will get one minute to answer questions, and 30 seconds for follow-ups and rebuttals. I'll give candidates time to respond if they've been singled out and criticized by another candidate. All right, candidates. Let's begin.

  Hollis Doyle : I didn't say *everybody*.

  Mellie Grant : Yeah, just the ones you don't like.

  Hollis Doyle : Get rid of everybody, ain't no one to pick the cantaloupes and what have you.

  [audience gasps] 

  Hollis Doyle : We need some of them. What we don't need are the murderers and thugs.

  Mellie Grant : Your plan won't work. You know how I know it won't work? Eisenhower tried the same thing, sending out a posse to round up Mexicans in the '50s.

  Olivia Pope : [talking to the television]  Ancestry. Hit the hypocrisy.

• Marcus Walker : [about his new assignment travel with Mellie]  Why does it have to be me?

  Olivia Pope : You're smart, even-keeled, good with people.

  Marcus Walker : She's not people. She is a privileged, miserable, mean.

• Olivia Pope : I happen to think that Mellie will be a great president. She is smart, hardworking. She cares about this country. You married her, Fitz, had children with her. You must have thought the same thing about her at some point.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : What can I say? You think you know a person.

  Olivia Pope : Funny how that works.

• [last lines] 

  Olivia Pope : I want to win, desperately, but I want to win clean. I want to win because I ran the best campaign for the best candidate. I want to walk away in November with my pride, with dignity. So what do you say?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Is that scotch?

  Olivia Pope : Bourbon.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : [handing her a drink]  I say, I'm gonna kick your ass.