- Olivia Pope: I was wrong before about it not being your fault. It *is* your fault. You love him, you do. But you can't fix everything for him. You can't. He's playing you, because you let him. You give him everything he asks for, and you clean up his messes, and you believe him even when he lies to you, and that is NOT LOVE. Love is making him face who he is. The best thing you can do for him is to do the best thing *for* him. It's not your fault what he did, but letting him get away with it, THAT IS your fault.
- Travis Harding: Hey, do you know who this is? This is the Olivia pope. She's amazing. She works for the Who do you work for now, the white house, CIA, FBI?
- Olivia Pope: Today? Your mother.
- Travis Harding: Oh, crap!
- Helen Fisher: [holding back rage] If you were me, how much would it take you to be able to forget. To forget you'd been strangled, had your clothes ripped off, had some guy pin you down while he forced his fist inside your mouth so hard, you could taste your own blood? How much would it take you to be able to forget all that. To be able to even think of having sex with somebody again. To wake up every morning and not want to kill yourself when you realize it wasn't just a dream, it actually happened? How much would it take you to forget all that? $10 million? 20? How much would you be worth?
- Olivia Pope: You're afraid that it was nothing. That he's forgotten it already. Tossed you like yesterday's paper and moved on without another thought. And if he's forgotten then it's almost as if it never happened. That what you had with him wasn't real and that makes you feel completely and utterly alone. But I haven't forgotten. I know what happened. I know it was real.
- Mellie Grant: You paced until 4:00 AM. I wanted you to get some sleep.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: [frantically running around pulling on clothes] I had a video conference on hunger in the developing world. Mandela got outta bed. Mandela was waiting for me.
- Mellie Grant: People die if they don't get enough sleep.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: The chairman of the joint chiefs and I had a meeting, I was sitting with the economic advisors.
- Mellie Grant: You needed one chance to sleep in.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I am the leader of the free world! I do not sleep in!