House of Cards (TV Series)

Chapter 62 (2017)

Kevin Spacey: Francis Underwood

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• [first lines] 

  Francis Underwood : The dead sleep with their eyes open, my grandfather would say. They're watching you from the past.

• Francis Underwood : Your job as vice president is to advise. My job is to make the decisions.

• Jane Davis : I just want peace.

  Francis Underwood : Yes, there's nothing that makes profits like peace.

• Garrett Walker : I was once the president of the United States.

  Francis Underwood : Yes, you were.

  Garrett Walker : You stole the presidency, Frank.

  Francis Underwood : Now, Garrett...

  Garrett Walker : Now this is ancient history, but by modern political standards, my election was a landslide. I was gonna change this country. But then, things happen. People lie... You lie to keep up. The things that you've been lauded for all your life, those are suddenly fatal flaws. People who've been with you through thick and thin, who you thought would never fail you, they fail you. You make strange alliances with unsavoury people. And it all becomes clear way too late. And no one else truly understands. Except someone who's been in the office...

  Francis Underwood : You can't expect the office to do anything more than what you bring to it.

  Garrett Walker : I'm doing this for the party.

  Francis Underwood : I know. And it's admirable.

• Mark Usher : Romero said no, and the usual offers don't interest him.

  Francis Underwood : Oh, he's interested. He just hates himself for it.

• Francis Underwood : He just might. But first, I want to know what you have on Romero.

  Mark Usher : I don't have a thing.

  Doug Stamper : Please.

  Francis Underwood : Doug, let's not be rude.