Madam Secretary
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I mean... it's fun to feel pretty. But when that's the only thing the world is looking for, they miss so much.
Elizabeth
I want people to talk about what I'm trying to do, not about how I look like trying to do it. You know?
Elizabeth
Henry: Thanks for looking at us instead of your phones.
Allison: Thanks for being interesting.
Spare me your idealism. More importantly, spare Africa. I lived through the Cultural Revolution. My father was not so lucky. Idealism kills. Mutual interests save lives.
Minister Chen [to Elizabeth]
Daisy: This trip is coming off the rails, Susan, just like I said it would.
Susan: Okay, so a trip to Africa turned out to be complicated. Congratulations, Nostradamus.
Nadine: Why can't these people speak English?
Matt: 'Cause then we could understand what they're saying.
Nadine: I hate the Pentagon so much.
We're going to make an emergency landing in Togo. But the thing is, Daisy, we're not gonna die. Come on. The odds of us dying in a crash are eleven million to one. That's slightly lower than getting killed by lightening. But admittedly higher than being killed by a falling coconut.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth: Not only did Minister Chen undercut our deal at the last minute, he chose to do so in a very public and embarrassing way.
Blake: So he...he trolled us?
Susan: Arguably tried to bigfoot us.
Elizabeth: I believe the correct diplomatic term he "pantsed" us.
Poet Laureate Roland...somebody is coming in from Connecticut this afternoon, he'll be reading a poem at the inauguration tomorrow. You can thank JFK for this enduring legacy which forces us to stand in the cold for an extra twenty minutes.
Russell
Elizabeth: Make it clear that we are respectfully declining the gift horse.
Blake: May I ask why?
Elizabeth: So many reasons, not the least of which -- we don't have anywhere in the State Department to put her!
Russell: Okay, y-you guys are really gonna make me be the one to say it? The oppo research.
Dalton: [sighs] What happened to being a knight?
Russell: The painkillers have worn off!
When I did that NFL thing in Ohio, I also took some legislators out to dinner. Applebee's. That's where they wanted to go. I unduly influenced them with potato skins and hot wings.
Elizabeth
