Scandal (TV Series)

Snake in the Garden (2013)

Tony Goldwyn: Fitzgerald Grant

Quotes 

• President Fitzgerald Grant : [about his Vietnam experiences]  You want to know what happened? I'll tell you what happened.

  Cyrus Beene : I don't care what happened. I don't need to know. Point is, you did *things*. Things you can't talk about. Heroic things you can't put in your memoirs because it would endanger our military operations, things that might even endanger the foundation of the Republic. Who knows? Well, guess what. So did I And just because my battleground was in Ohio and not the Persian Gulf doesn't make me any less of a patriot or make my service any less valiant. And just like you, I can't talk about that service, that operation, because doing so would endanger the Republic for which we stand. But still, I can be proud of it. I am proud of it, just as I hope you are proud of Operation Remington.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : You are equating what you did in Defiance with national security issues?

  Cyrus Beene : I'm saying the right side and the wrong side Are determined not by me and not by you - but by history. History makes the heroes and the villains, sir. You and I, we're just players.

• President Fitzgerald Grant : [about cancelled kids visit]  I get it. You don't have the mother gene. You don't want to be bothered to raise them or take care of them, but I'd think you'd at least love them.

• Mellie Grant : You're not their father anymore. And you are not Fitz anymore. You know who you are? You know who you've become? You're big Jerry. You're your father. Everybody in this White House, Cyrus and me included, tiptoe around, trying to figure out how to get on your good side. But you don't have a good side! You've turned into your father! So you should understand how your children feel, considering how much you hated your dad. They didn't want to come. And so I told them they didn't have to. Deal with it. Put another glass of scotch on top of it and just deal with it.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : [looks down and takes his hand off of his glass]