House of Cards Quotes (Season 1)

It only takes ten seconds to crush a man’s ambitions.

If you want to earn my loyalty then you will have to offer yours in return.

If you do decide to take the coward’s way out, cut along the tracks, not across them. That’s a rookie mistake.

I’m not going to lie. I despise children. There. I’ve said it.

I said to my professor, ‘Why mourn the death of presidents, or anyone for that matter? The dead can’t hear us.’ And he asked me if I believed in heaven. I said, ‘No.’ And then he asked if I had no faith in God. I said, ‘You have it wrong; it’s God who has no faith in us.

I never make such big decisions so long after sunset and so far from dawn.

I almost pity him. He didn’t choose to be put on my platter. When I carve him up and toss him to the dogs, only then will he confront that brutal, inescapable truth.

Every Tuesday I sit down with the speaker and the majority leader to discuss the week’s agenda. Well, discuss is probably the wrong word. They talk while I sit quietly and imagine their lightly salted faces frying in a skillet.