- Candidate Grant: Why didn't I meet you sooner? What kind of a coward was I to marry her and not wait for you to show up?
- Olivia Pope: Governor Grant...
- Candidate Grant: Oh, for God sake, we are so far beyond the "Governor Grant" crap. Just say my name.
- Olivia Pope: That's crossing the line. It would be inappropriate.
- Candidate Grant: Then let's be inappropriate...
- [first lines]
- Olivia Pope: Why are you here? You can't be here.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I didn't kill Amanda Tanner.
- Olivia Pope: I know. Her baby it wasn't yours. But it could have been.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Really? You really want me to detail for you how and where and in what positions Amanda Tanner and I had sex? Would that help make you feel better? 'Cause I'll do it.
- Olivia Pope: No.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: You left me. I was unhappy. She was there. One time. I made a mistake.
- Olivia Pope: I don't want to talk about it. You cheated on your mistress with your girlfriend. Let's just leave it at that.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: She wasn't my girlfriend. And don't you ever call yourself a mistress. We both know better.
- [walking toward her]
- Olivia Pope: Why are you here?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Cyrus got this in the mail a week ago. It's a sex tape. I'm on it. I need you to hear it.
- Olivia Pope: I definitely don't want to hear you and Amanda Tanner having sex!
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Olivia. I need you to listen to this...
- Kendal Parks: [moderating the debate] The next question is for you, Governor Grant. Your marriage has received a lot of attention during this primary campaign. And while allegations of infidelity have been dismissed, criticism lingers amongst voters. Why do you think that is?
- Cyrus Beene: [at the back of the room] We knew it was coming...
- Candidate Grant: [amplified voice] I think that a lot gets lost in translation between real life and packaged news footage. You can't capture 20 years of marriage in a snapshot. You can't capture chemistry with a photo op. I know what some people perceive and what the whispers are, but... The most honest thing that I can tell you about myself right now, Kendal, is that I'm a man in love, with an incredible woman.
- Olivia Pope: It's hard to win over women when there's a viable female candidate in the race. We've been waiting a long time.
- Mellie Grant: [campaigning in a dinner] I just... I can't do this anymore...
- [camera shutter clicks]
- Candidate Grant: [nervously] Mel?
- Mellie Grant: It's okay, honey, I just I need to say it.
- [sighs deeply]
- Mellie Grant: Um, a few months ago, Fitz and I found out that we were pregnant with our third child. And we were so thrilled, so excited to bring a new life into our family. But Campaigns can be so stressful, and I guess, uh...
- [sniffles]
- Mellie Grant: I guess my body just couldn't handle it. And I lost our baby. Even though it was only 8 weeks...
- [sighs]
- Mellie Grant: It was a baby, and it was a member of our family, and I have grieved for the loss of our child every day since. And I know that many of you have sensed, um, I don't know, distance between me and Fitz during the campaign, while we have struggled through this terrible experience as best we could. And I should say...
- [sniffles]
- Mellie Grant: Fitz wanted to quit to give us time to take care of each other. But I wouldn't let him, because I truly believe that he is the best person to be President of the United States, and I couldn't let our loss stand in the way of that.
- Candidate Grant: [hugs her as the audience murmurs, camera shutters clicking]
- Mellie Grant: [in his ear as they hug] I think that ought to take care of it, don't you?
- Billy Chambers: I think you had a relationship with Amanda. I think you were her boyfriend.
- Gideon Wallace: [chuckles and clears throat] Is that it? Is that your big discovery, that we were boyfriend and girlfriend? That we held hands? Went steady?
- Billy Chambers: If I were the Vice President's chief of staff, that's not something that I would want people to know, especially considering that she...
- Gideon Wallace: Morons.
- Billy Chambers: What?
- Gideon Wallace: I'm surrounded by morons. Huge, clueless morons.