Scandal (TV Series)

Molly, You in Danger, Girl (2013)

Tony Goldwyn: Fitzgerald Grant

Quotes 

• Mellie Grant : Marriage is, well, it's almost all pretend for everyone. That's the reality. That's what's real. Buying into the delusion that there's any other way to live together, to get through an entire life together... That's, well, that's the fantasy. That's pretending.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Did I do this to you? Or have you always been like this? Because if it was me I'm sorry.

• [first lines] 

  President Fitzgerald Grant : [speaking at news conference]  Today I can confirm that former CIA Director Grayden Osborne was responsible for a leak of confidential information to our foreign adversaries. We believe he was a mole working in the United States government. It's unfortunate for me to say that a man I appointed, a man I trusted, was secretly and actively working against this country in hopes of destroying it. But he did not succeed. Our national security is intact. Our intelligence community is stronger than ever. And our government continues to do everything in its power to keep Americans, both abroad and right here at home, safe.

• Cyrus Beene : [standing plaintiffly]  I could tread carefully here and parse my words, but instead, let's just be modern. It's faster. In this interview, Rose is going to want to see a happy couple, a warm couple, a connected couple, two people in love. They don't want you They don't want this.

  [indicating their vacant stares] 

  Cyrus Beene : This is "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?"This is "MacBeth."They want the fairy tale. We know what they want. I know you know, but that's not the same as being able to deliver. Can you give good fairy tale?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : [getting up]  Cyrus, we've been doing this circus act for 20 years. We'll be fine.

  Mellie Grant : [getting up]  We'll be fine. We've had enough practice. We can't all be you and James, Cyrus. We can't all have a perfect marriage.

• [last lines] 

  President Fitzgerald Grant : [enters the hosiptal room after his Secrete Service agents]  Thanks for calling me, Jake.

  Jake Ballard : You're welcome, sir. We had a bit of a scare, but she's gonna be all right.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : It's lucky you were there.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : [to Olivia in the bed]  Hi.