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Frank Underwood Quotes

Total quotes: 30
“Do you want to live? Tell us what we want. Tell us what we want to hear.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 53
Tagged: Threats, Appeasement
“After all, we are nothing more or less than what we choose to reveal.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 1: Chapter 7
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“The fog of war. A back room within a back room....You know, it’s at times like these I wish I was Nixon, had every nook and cranny bugged.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 48
Tagged: Richard Nixon, War, Wiretapping
“Claire, when you bring yourself down before someone else can, you control the way it happens.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 65
Tagged: Control
“History is earned. You win the day, and then you win the day after, and you do the same thing every day until you’re dead. And you’re remembered not for the winning, but because you never lost!”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 60
Tagged: History, Winning
“After a dog’s bitten you, you either put it to sleep, or you put a muzzle on it. I’ve chosen a muzzle...for now.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 50
Tagged: Dogs, Dog Bite, Euthanasia, Muzzle
“Oh, don’t deny it. You’ve loved it. You don’t actually need me to stand for anything. You just need me to stand. To be the strong man. The man of action.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 64
Tagged: Strongman, Man of Action
“...you can’t just sit back and admire the view. I’ve learned you’ve got to grab the present by the balls. That’s where the American people live.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 60
Tagged: Americans, Proactive
“The nature of promises, Linda, is that they remain immune to changing circumstances”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 1: Chapter 1
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“If a man is not smart enough to be able to use whatever is in front of him and still make it work...well, then...that’s just a failure of the imagination.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 54
Tagged: Smart, Imagination, Failure
“In Gaffney we had our own brand of diplomacy: shake with your right hand and hold a rock in your left.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 2: Chapter 18
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“How could you be so stupid...to fall in love?”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 64
Tagged: Stupid, Love
“You made this bed, America. You voted for me. Are you confused? Are you afraid? Because what you thought you wanted is now here. And there you are, staring back, slackjawed, bewildered, wondering if this is what you actually asked for.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 61
Tagged: Slackjawed, Bewildered
“Familiar can turn foreign on a dime.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 63
Tagged: familiar, Foreign
“You know, they say the most vulnerable part of the human body...is the throat...and that you never really know how you feel about somebody...until they have their hands around your throat. So tell me...how do you feel now?”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 62
Tagged: Death Threats, Choking
“Where does the real power lie? The power behind the power...”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 65
Tagged: Power, Deep State
“Conscience has an unmistakable stink to it, sort of like raw onions and morning breath. But a lie stinks even more when it’s coming from someone who isn’t used to lying. It’s more like rotten eggs and horse shit.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 46
Tagged: Conscience, stink, Onions, Morning Breath, Lies, Rotten Eggs, Horse Shit
“History has a way of looking better than it was.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 63
Tagged: History, Hindsight
“You know, if you ignore all the pomp and circumstance, the most perverse thing is I actually believe in the presidency. Its importance. What it means around the world, even symbolically. But I believe in power even more. For its own sake.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 65
Tagged: Pomp, circumstance
“There will be pain. There will be suffering. We will be confronted with the most horrific aspects of humanity. We will confront the inhuman. Evil itself. But we will triumph. It is not a war we will lose.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 52
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Triumph, Evil, War
“You know what I like about people? They stack so well.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 1: Chapter 2
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“Insecurity bores me.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 1: Chapter 7
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“When someone doesn't answer, there's your answer.”
— Frank Underwood
“Of all the things I hold in high regard, rules are not one of them.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 1: Chapter 13
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“I will march forward, even if I have to do so alone.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 1: Chapter 10
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“The higher up the mountain the more treacherous the path.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 2: Chapter 16
Tagged: Business Morals, TV Show Quotes, White House, Politics
“Fear is un-American. And yes, the irony of saying those words to you on Halloween, of all days, is not lost on me. But although we may choose, as Americans, to scare ourselves once a year for fun...no one else tells any American when to shake in their boots at any other time.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 54
Tagged: Fear, Unamerican, Halloween
“You see, my feeling is, I think the Founding Fathers, they just got tired. And really, can you blame them? I mean, you can’t think of everything. Black swans, Murphy’s Law... I mean, at a certain point, you just have to sign off and cross your goddamn fingers and hope for the best.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 57
Tagged: Founding Fathers, Black Swan, Murphy's Law, Giving Up
“The identity of the next President of these United States is once again in the hands of a bunch of self-serving, money-hungry, boot-licking, power-seeking politicians who can be seduced or sucker punched or blackmailed into submission. And all I need is just one more vote than the other guy.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 57
Tagged: Identity, US President, Boot-Licking, Money-Hungry, Power-seeking, Sucker-Punched, Submission
“The American people don’t know what’s best for them. I do. I know exactly what they need. They’re like little children, Claire. Children we never had. We have to hold their sticky fingers and wipe their filthy mouths. Teach them right from wrong. Tell them what to think and how to feel and what to want. They even need help writing their wildest dreams, crafting their worst fears. Lucky for them...they have me...they have you.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 56
Tagged: Children, Americans, Arrogance, Condescension
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