Madam Secretary
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Mike B; The way to win a knife fight is to bring a gun and waste the son of a bitch.
Mom doesn't lie. She doesn't pretend to better than she is. And she faces up to the things that she's done.
Stevie
Yousf: We're not 17 anymore!
Elizabeth: Exactly! Now we're in a position to exact change.
Jay: He's used to getting his way.
Elizabeth: Well, that may be, but I happen to know he is extremely ticklish.
Matt: Wait. Did the Secretary just admit to intimate anatomical knowledge of the Prince of Bahrain?
Blake: The CIA briefs must be very detailed.
If the Iranians were behind the murder of the Secretary of State, it won't just be cruise missles and it won't just be Tehran.
Jackson
Jackson: My God. All this time. How could you just go about your business?
Elizabeth: That's what I was trained for.
Jackson: Tell me everything.
Elizabeth: That could take awhile.
Jackson: I've got all night.
Jackson: So what am I supposed to think? What possible reason could there be except that you think I had him killed.
Elizabeth: Thought you might have knowledge of it, yes.
Jackson: You seriously think I and the President are assassins?
Elizabeth: Not anymore.
Dori: Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
Jackson: You may have helped just enough.
If confusion is an asset, then I'm your man.
Matt
Russell: Maybe you can finish what he started.
Elizabeth: What's that?
Russell: Land.
I swear I'm glad he's dead.
Nadine
Elizabeth: If you never listen to anything I say again for the rest of your life, please hear this: Everything is more complicated than you think it is right now. And the only way you come to know that is through experience. And that's what this whole process of growing up is all about.
Stevie: Yeah. I know. I gotta go do that now.