- 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.
- 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.