Madam Secretary
Sundays 10:00 PM on CBSMadam Secretary Season 3 Episode 18: "Good Bones" Quotes
Somebody sent me this after one of the terrorist attacks. It's a poem called Good Bones by Maggie Smith. The last part of it goes, "Life is short and the world is at least half terrible and for every kind stranger there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I'm trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor walking you through a real hell hole chirps on about good bones. This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful?”
Jay
Matt: I want to slay dragons, Ma'am, not play whack-a-mole with evil.
Elizabeth: Sometimes making evil have to duck and find another hole is the best we're going to do.
Elizabeth: None of this is easy today but we have a budget to pass and we need to pull it together and fight for a lot of programs that matter.
Jay: Do they? Does any of this matter? All of our big meetings and political positioning, is any of it going to save one person who shouldn't die today?
Guys like Thad are everywhere but guys like you are the reason they get away with it every day.
Allison
What age do we live in that I can't ask a guy out without getting dragged to some room?
Allison
Can you explain to me why the ethics professor, the injured ethics professor, is the guy driving the truck with the bomb in it?
Elizabeth
Elizabeth: How old were you when you stopped fighting with your siblings?
Henry: I'll let you know.
Elizabeth: What just happened?
Nadine: I believe we just made a deal to convince an actress to go to a despot's birthday party in Central Asia so that we can combat human trafficking.
Matt: Isn't Nogoyev the Russian lapdog who outlawed free press on the first day?
Daisy: And made his mother's birthday a national holiday.
Matt: Well, that would totally work on my mom.
Matt: How are you doing with the whole…
Daisy: Guy I was dating getting poisoned by some nefarious agent still at large? Not great, but thanks for asking.
