Elizabeth: You know the last Secretary of State to become President? James Buchanan. 150 years ago.
Henry: Well, even the Cubbies eventually won the World Series.

Blake: Did that work?
Matt: I don't know. I can't read that lady.
Daisy: Yeah, me neither. She's either chill...
Kat: Or she's gonna kill somebody.

I'm not going to respond publicly. It would be beneath the administration to attack a private business.

Elizabeth

Kat: Ma'am, if I could put a finer point on it: Andrada is a chauvinist who is unlikely to meet with a woman whose last interaction left him with a deviated septum.

Sometimes you *do* have to choose the lesser of two evils.

Elizabeth

Blake: Good morning, Madam Secretary.
Elizabeth: You know, I have this fantasy that one morning I'm going to step off of that elevator and be greeted by a genie. Or a masseuse, or maybe a wayward puppy.

Elizabeth: Oh, sir, I would advise against that. He's gonna take it as an affront.
Dalton: Says the woman who shattered his nose.

'No man left behind' isn't just a credo, it's a pledge we make to the enlisted and every second those soldiers aren't back is a breach of faith to those who serve.

Dalton

Madam Secretary Season 5 Episode 4 Quotes

Elizabeth: Oh, sir, I would advise against that. He's gonna take it as an affront.
Dalton: Says the woman who shattered his nose.

'No man left behind' isn't just a credo, it's a pledge we make to the enlisted and every second those soldiers aren't back is a breach of faith to those who serve.

Dalton