Scandal (TV Series)

No More Blood (2015)

Tony Goldwyn: Fitzgerald Grant

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  President Fitzgerald Grant : I tried to give up my wife for you! My office! And you backed out every time!

  Olivia Pope : Of course I did! If you gave up the presidency, what did I do all of this for? Everything we did, I did all of it. If you gave up the presidency, it would be a waste! Everything I've sacrificed to get you here, to keep you here, so you could be the best, so you could make history, so you could be the president you were meant to be. And you were. You were the president you were meant to be. And then, when the true test came along, when I was taken because of you, you go to war? You sent thousands of innocent soldiers into harm's way, some of them to their deaths, for one person.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : I had to save you.

  Olivia Pope : You didn't save me! I'm on my own!

• CIA Director Lowry : During her tenure in the White House, Olivia Pope had a top-level security clearance, which gave her access to highly classified information, much of it red zone, some of it highly dangerous - information that, in the wrong hands, would be catastrophic to our nation's security and international relationships.

  Cyrus Beene : Catastrophic?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : I don't scare easily, Director. I'm going to need specifics.

  CIA Director Lowry : We have done our homework, Sir. Let me paint the picture. If Olivia Pope goes to the Saudis, they'll have our illegal black sites in Amman. Southeast Asia, they'll learn about our anti-terror surveillance programs. We have four countries, four, who will discover the deaths of their leaders were not due to natural causes. And I am sure that England and Germany would be extremely interested to find out we spy on our own allies.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Make your point.

  CIA Director Lowry : My point, sir, is that that's the good news. What is truly terrifying is what they will want for her return. Russia will ask you to close our bases in Turkey, neutering us in that region. Pakistan will ask for drone technology to wipe India off the map once and for all. And ISIS will want the immediate release of hundreds of terrorists hell-bent on killing innocent Americans.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : None of which will come to light if Ms. Pope is extracted safely.

  CIA Director Lowry : In our estimation, there's a 30% chance of that.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Even with our best SEALS on the ground?

  CIA Director Lowry : Even with our best SEALS on the ground.

• President Fitzgerald Grant : [plowing forward with his rescue Olivia agenda]  We should consider working a separate deal with MI6 because at this point...

  Cyrus Beene : [blurting out]  Oh, for the love of God. You moron! You child! When are you going to learn? The finest minds of our government have told you what needs to happen, and still! I built you from the ground up, from the ground up! You are all that I have to show for my life! I made you a warrior! I made you a king! I made you leader of men! And this is what you do? This is what you leave me with? No! No! No! I'm done. I quit. I quit! And you can take your flowers and daisies and your "love conquers all" and your hope, and you can choke on it, because I don't work here anymore!

  [stomps out of the Oval Office] 

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Cyrus?

  Cyrus Beene : [stirs from his daydream] 

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Don't you agree?

  Cyrus Beene : Excellent points, all, sir.

• President Fitzgerald Grant : Did they hurt you?

  Olivia Pope : Let's just... Not...

  President Fitzgerald Grant : I mean, I'm asking... Did they hurt you?

  Olivia Pope : I wasn't raped. Guess what I learned. There are worse things than rape.