Madam Secretary
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Elizabeth [after their argument is resolved]: And I do want to see pay stubs.
Mike B: Of course you do. I would too. {pause] Another wonderful threshold of intimacy crossed.
Ugh, I loathe our lunchtime runs. Why can't we just have salads at Cafe du Parc like normal people?
Mike B [to Elizabeth]
Elizabeth: What's Ambassador Newman saying?
Russell: Newman's a tenor who sits on a phone book to drive. He can't help us. This situation requires some brass balls.
Elizabeth: So you're sending me in? Well, there's a compliment in there somewhere.
Russell: I hope you don't mind. My wife still checks my steps. Wants me alive for some reason.
Elizabeth: Eh, I'll agree with her on that.
Russell: So do I. I just wish I could do it in a hammock, with short ribs.
If I can't be honest with people about who I am then how can I ever have an honest experience with them?
Blake
I need to be doing work that matters today.
Stevie
Elizabeth: You ambushed me!
Henry: I would have told you, but we were a little busy trying to prevent a bioterror attack.
Elizabeth: If only there were some method of communication where you could send messages almost instantaneously...
I don't make it, clear my search history!
Jason [in the nurses office]
You've proven yourself to have more character and integrity than 99% of the pampered, gelatinous blue-bloods who skulk through the halls of Harvard.
Russell [to Stevie]
Handsome really does come with it's own free pass, doesn't it?
Matt
Nadine: So you have anxiety about running into old colleagues?
Blake: Not unless you count waking up at two am in a cold sweat from stress nightmares where I'm back there and all the doors are locked and I'm naked, but...[Nadine laughs] not really.
Kind of ironic, asking me to keep secret secretly pull strings to help make your daughter more independent.
Russell [to Elizabeth]
