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“This. Is. War. There is no script. You can choose the battle, but if you send me out, I'm fighting my way. I don't play. I don't hide. I don't hold back or look for exits... and I sure as hell don't lean on the ropes and take it. I swing because that's me. That's who I am. That is how I gladiate.”
— Marcus Walker, Scandal, Season 5: You Got Served
Tagged: War, Battle, Fight, Swinging, Tough
“Jake: How does a guy facing a murder charge even get bail?

Quinn: By being rich and white.”
— Quinn Perkins, Scandal, Season 5: Yes
Tagged: Jail, Bail, Murder, rich, white, Privilege
“Your biggest accomplishment so far is breathing and smiling.”
— President Fitzgerald Grant, Scandal, Season 5: Heavy is the Head
Tagged: Acomplishment, smiling, breathing, Sassy
“You can do this job and keep your integrity. Just be honest. Be yourself.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 4: It’s Good to Be Kink
Tagged: Job, Work, Integrity, honest, Be yourself
“You don't want justice. You want anger. You want outrage. You want retribution.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 4: The Lawn Chair
Tagged: Justice, Anger, Outrage, Retribution
“Press secretaries can't cry! It's, like, a rule!”
— Abby Whelan, Scandal, Season 4: Baby Made a Mess
Tagged: Press Secretary, cry, Rules, Expectations
“Olivia: Burying yourself in work isn't always the best thing when you lose someone.

Fitz: Running away isn't the best thing either.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 4: Like Father, Like Daughter
Tagged: Work, Running Away, Loss, Distractions
“ I'm working. I'm gladiating.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 4: The Key
Tagged: Working, Gladiator, Catchphrase
“ I am now broken. I'm not me. I'm forever changed. I'm undone. A broken heart is a broken heart. To take a measure is cruelty.”
— Cyrus Beene, Scandal, Season 4: The State of the Union
Tagged: broken, Forever Changed, Undone, Broken Heart, cruel
“ It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal. And the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 3: The Price of Free and Fair Elections
Tagged: scandal, Shut It Down, fixed, Handled, Problem
“All you can see is God and country and you're so busy being a patriot that you forget to be a person.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 3: Ride, Sally, Ride
Tagged: Patriot, Person, Living, country, God
“We are the devil. I am actually the devil.”
— Cyrus Beene, Scandal, Season 3: A Door Marked Exit
Tagged: devil, Admit It, fact
“ I never thought I'd get out of that hole. Never. It's not just the dirt floor and the darkness that gets you. It's the isolation. It's the silence. It breaks something in you. I just kept picturing your face. Your face saved me. I'm here because you saved me.”
— Jake Ballard, Scandal, Season 3: Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington
Tagged: Isolation, Fear, inspiration, Life Saver, face, Silence, Struggle
“How Presidential are my balls now, Cy?”
— President Fitzgerald Grant, Scandal, Season 3: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Tagged: Guts, President, Nervous, Choices, Questions
“You wanted to know who I am? This is who I am. Defiance is who I am. This is me. This is who you married. This is who you love. You made a choice. You did this. This is the man you are. And guess what? I love you anyway. Because that is the man I am.”
— Cyrus Beene, Scandal, Season 2: Molly, You in Danger, Girl
Tagged: Defiance, Marriage, Love, Relationships, Man, Choice
“Olivia: I'm apolitical you know that.

Cyrus: Is your vagina apolitical?”
— Cyrus Beene, Scandal, Season 2: Top of the Hour
Tagged: Apolitical, Vagina, Comeback
“ You're frozen in time. You're holding your breath. You're a statue waiting for something that's never going to happen. Living for stolen moments in hotel hallways and coat closets and you keep telling yourself they all add up to something real because in your mind they have to but they don't. They won't. They never will. Because stolen moments aren't a life. So you have nothing. You have no one. End it now.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 2: Boom Goes the Dynamite
Tagged: frozen, Revenge, Life, wasted, stolen
“I will take every penny he has in the bank and every dollar of political capital that he has in this town. I will court feminist groups and mothers groups and religious groups. I will bury him. And I will dance on his grave. And then? I will run for office.”
— Mellie Grant, Scandal, Season 2: Nobody Likes Babies
Tagged: Revenge, Feminist, mothers, Bury, Dance On His Grave, Office
“Gladiators don't get to have feelings. We rush into battle. We're soldiers. We get hurt in the fight we suck it up and we hold the line and we don't question.”
— Harrison Wright, Scandal, Season 2: Nobody Likes Babies
Tagged: Gladiators, Battle, Soldiers, Fight, hurt
“This doesn't make us even. Not even close. And it won't stop me from coming after you, guns blazing, both barrels, if it looks, as I strongly suspect, that you were involved in illegal activity, or worse, if you try to screw me again. In that case, God help you.”
— David Rosen, Scandal, Season 2: Truth or Consequences
Tagged: Anger, illegal, Coming For You, suspect
“Women like going to a nice restaurant, it's a universal truth.”
— Harrison Wright, Scandal, Season 2: All Roads Lead to Fitz
Tagged: Women, Stereotype, universal truth, claim
“Because it was perfect. And that kind of perfection doesn't make me feel weak. It makes me feel strong. I looked at myself in the mirror and I finally recognized that person I once knew so well. That person who went out all the time, sometimes just for fun. And, now that I've seen that person again, I don't know if I could ever go back.”
— Huck, Scandal, Season 2: Beltway Unbuckled
Tagged: Strong, Capable, Fun, Reflection, Identity
“Olivia Pope doesn't move Heaven and Earth and further corrupt the justice system unless she knows at the end of the day she can put on the white hat and ride out of town.”
— David Rosen, Scandal, Season 2: Hunting Season
Tagged: Justice, Corruption, Escape, Fix Things
“I don't do lost causes or tilt at windmills. I don't perform miracles or do the impossible. I make cold calculations about difficult situations and I do not take on anything I know I won't win. And I will win this. I just need you to trust me. I promise you.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 2: White Hat's Off
Tagged: Trust, Never Give Up, Winner, promises
“The nitty-gritty, morally bankrupt, back-alley-brawling rest of the game... that's me. It's filthy and thankless, and it's my hallelujah, heroin, and reason to breathe.”
— Cyrus Beene, Scandal, Season 1: The Trail
Tagged: Nitty-gritty, Lack Of Morals, Filthy, Thankless, Addiction
“People want to like who they're voting for. People thought Al Gore was a big stiff until he stuck his tongue down Tipper's throat. They put George W. in office because he and Laura seemed like a fun couple to have a beer with. People have to want to invite you in for dinner.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 1: The Trail
Tagged: vote, President, In Office, Likeability, Popular, Relatable
“We're never done. If we lose this round, we prep him for appeal. If we lose that, we prep him for a second appeal, because whatever happens, there's always another move. Whatever happens, we do not give up. It is my name on that door, and I do not give up.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 1: Hell Hath No Fury
Tagged: Another Move, Never Give Up, Never Done, Work
“ I think that love, at the end of the day, is stronger than some mistake somebody made. Something they did that they regret. I think that love allows for forgiveness.”
— President Fitzgerald Grant, Scandal, Season 1: Dirty Little Secrets
Tagged: Love, Strength Of Love, Mistakes, Regret, Forvgiveness
“I'm the good guy. The law is on my side. I am the law. The law is me. I work for justice. I uphold the Constitution of these United States. I am a knight for the people.”
— David Rosen, Scandal, Season 1: Dirty Little Secrets
Tagged: good guy, Law, Justice, Knight, For The People
“If we do our job right, we never need to go to court. Look, the reason we're not a law firm? We don't have to play within the rules of the law. We're fixers, crisis managers. We make the problems of our clients go away. Big or small. It's not about solving some crime. It's not about justice. It's about our client.”
— Harrison Wright, Scandal, Season 1: Sweet Baby
Tagged: Jobs, Court, Fixers, Problems, Clients, Justice
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