Scandal (TV Series)

Top of the Hour (2013)

Kerry Washington: Olivia Pope

Quotes 

• Cyrus Beene : I just got back in the inner circle, Liv. He's listening again. And all I asked you for was a simple denial.

  Olivia Pope : Murray Randall is not my client. The President is not my client.

  Cyrus Beene : You're doing this because he's anti-choice?

  Olivia Pope : I'm apolitical. You know that.

  Cyrus Beene : Is your vagina apolitical?

  Olivia Pope : Good-bye, Cy.

• Olivia Pope : Is he a good dad?

  Annie Stanner : He is a great dad.

  Olivia Pope : You did what you thought was best at the time. Even if it was wrong, you thought it was best. You can't change the choice you made. All you can do is not let it ruin you. And what if he never forgives me? Then you're going to have to learn to forgive yourself.

  Annie Stanner : That sounds lonely.

  Olivia Pope : It is.

• Annie Stanner : Have a drink with me. Drink the damn wine.

  Olivia Pope : Mmm.

  [hoists the bottle to her mouth] 

  Olivia Pope : This is A $300 bottle of wine!

• Olivia Pope : You let him be her dad.

  Annie Stanner : I let him be her dad. Y-you think the only one that's gonna suffer is you. You get a twinge on father's day, you suck it up, you tell yourself, okay, this is the price I'm paying. This is the cost. But it's not. There's a much larger bill, and it comes due. And suddenly Olivia Pope is in your living room.