- David Rosen: [giving opinion in the Oval Office] Rape cases, like all cases prosecuted on behalf of military personnel, must be tried in military courts. That's been the law since 1775. What Liv is suggesting is illegal.
- Cyrus Beene: What about murdering your vice president? How long has that been illegal?
- Olivia Pope: When I was kidnapped, there was this bathroom. It was filthy. It was the filthiest place I've ever been. It had this smell. But it was the only place they weren't, the only place I was alone. I started to look forward to being in there, look forward to my five minutes in a dirty, smelly bathroom because it was safe. I felt safe. That bathroom in that place with those men at least I knew what it was, what to expect. That my father could not get me.
- Jake Ballard: [to bound and gagged Franklin] I'm gonna untie one of your hands. If you do anything unfriendly, I will shoot you. If you try to kill yourself with this beer bottle, I will shoot you in a place that requires you to wear a diaper for the rest of your life. And if you try to kill me, well... Kill me once shame on me. Kill me twice...
- Jake Ballard: [comparing notes about their B-613 cohorts] Oh, he loved to talk about them.
- Franklin Russell: Mostly when I wasn't living up to expectation.
- Jake Ballard: Which for me was constantly.
- Franklin Russell: They, of course, were all perfect. Completely loyal. Never questioning.
- Jake Ballard: I know. I was always like, "if they were all so perfect, then why are they all dead?" Why How perfect could they have been?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: You want me, the commander in chief, to hand you over the documents that tell you where he was? Even though those documents are classified, and if they caught me, they'd hang me by my thumbs in the town square.
- Olivia Pope: Washington doesn't have a town square.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Trust me, the democrats would build one for me.