We are under attack. I do need your help but so does your country. I am today and you are tomorrow.

Dalton

Constantine: It's ironic that you decry nationalism around the world when at home -
Elizabeth: Callister's running for President. I've heard it before.
Constantine: That's the problem with your so-called free speech. It is another weapon that can be bought and sold.

How are we supposed to keep other nations on board when they're not sure they can trust our word?

Elizabeth

Jay: The entire UN Security Council gone? What do we do now, ma'am?
Elizabeth: We go to the White House and get into a fight.

Forget about liberals, conservatives, all that party stuff. What Americans yearn for is the leader with the guts to tell the truth and the charisma to lead us.

Peter

Stevie: So the world is ending and we're all screwed.
Blake: Which we've established.
Stevie: So what's the one thing you would do before it all collapses?

I always say my first constituent is Mother Earth.

Senator

Callister: What would you say to the person whose job is stolen or who loses her life to one of these migrants?
Elizabeth: I'd say that you're making up hypothetical people to distract from the actual issue.

Elizabeth: Best job I ever had.
Matt: So far.

We have been going for the past four years straight and next year if we're lucky we'll be in this building again for another four to eight years. We may never know silence again til we go to our graves.

Elizabeth

Never met a politician so willing to make it easier to make running for President harder.

Russell

Big day, Pete. Try not to be a jerk.

Peter

Madam Secretary Season 5 Quotes

I acknowledge, the United States is far from perfect. But one lesson India can take from America, despite our shortcomings, is that we have only approached our democratic ideals when we've striven to include *all* voices.

Henry

Elizabeth: I'm starting to feel silently judged.
Henry: I'm just unpacking, babe.
Elizabeth: After 28 years, I know 'just unpacking,' and that isn't it.