Mike: I think I can be confident that I will not be convicted of the murder of a state Senator.
Elizabeth: You plant enough doubt in the public's mind and they'll believe anything.

Henry: Let's hope Olivia is right and it's not a circus like the Senate hearings.
Elizabeth: Just an impeachment trial.

You were there from the beginning. You will be with me til the end, whenever that may come.

Elizabeth

Hansen: Have you considered my offer?
Elizabeth: Before I get to that, I want to say that I have made mistakes. I can be too single-minded in my pursuit of what I believe, and the charge that I am not quick to compromise is true.
Hansen: I'm glad you're saying that. Compromise is the key to effective leadership.
Elizabeth: Yeah, but the thing is, you don't want compromise. You want my unconditional surrender.
Hansen: That's a bit over the top, don't you think?
Elizabeth: I'll tell you what's over the top. Months of hearing, persecuting the finest staff I have ever had the pleasure of working with. You are a con artist, nothing but a partisan hack. I'm gonna keep working for the American people.
Hansen: When the end comes -- and it will -- remember that I gave you a chance, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth: That's Madam President.

Elizabeth: You know what pioneers get to accomplish? Being first. That's it.
Henry: Some get more than that.
Elizabeth: Not anyone who matters. Susan B Anthony fought for women's suffrage but died 5 years before it came to be. Martin Luther King didn't live to see many of his dreams come true. People who light the sparks don't often get to sit by the fire.

Breaking a vase in clumsy. Accusing a female writer of misogyny while mentioning that your detail is packing heat is just dumb.

Elizabeth

Elizabeth: I am not saying Congressman Codeine.
Mike B: Why? He just came out of rehab.

Does anyone in this room doubt that interfering in our elections was an act of war? What we do here or don't do has consequences. America is the bellweather of freedom. If we look away, then democracies everywhere are at risk.

Elizabeth

Elizabeth: Undermining of democracy should be of concern to all free nations.
Russell: Our friends aren't like-minded.

Elizabeth: That is a partisan move for a department that is supposed to be apolitical.
Mike: On the down low, please, Olivia. Otherwise the President looks like the captain of the Good Ship Paranoia.

Elizabeth: Intefering with our elections was a deplorable act.
Iranian leader: That is a reckless thing to say.

Henry: Reagan bailed.
Elizabeth: Because he was shot.
Henry: You're nervous because you have to tell jokes and you're not funny.

Madam Secretary Quotes

I won't say the David Bowie thing.

Henry

Elizabeth: When he says it's my call, what does he mean by that?
Russell: He means it's your ass.