When the country is f***еd, the good people can’t walk away. That is not the time.[to Stuart]
When someone hands you the opportunity of a lifetime, you have to take it.[to Kate]
We killed Scottish independence?[Kate Wyler]Yeah, it’s bad.[Hal Wyler]Who gives a f*** about Scotland? They’re nice, sweet people. They’re cold all the time. Let them make their own decisions.[Kate Wyler]A smaller democracy is a weaker one.[Hal Wyler]
This generation of women apologize for everything. Gloria Steinem must be rolling in her grave.[Kate Wyler]She’s very much alive. Gloria Steinem.[Stuart Hayford]
Smart people listen to other smart people, and change their minds.[to Kate]
People may invite the second lady to tea, but the ambassador’s gonna walk through the door.
No one with the temperament to win a campaign should be in charge of anything. It’s the most obvious rule in the world. No one who likes power should ever have it.[to Stuart]
Marriages don’t survive the death of a child.
If it’s now, I should pee.[Kate Wyler]Pee.[Eidra Park]I didn’t have to pee, and then she said that, and now I have to pee.[Eidra Park]Gosh, guys, I have to take a s***, should I come along?[Stuart Hayford]
If everybody hates you, it all stops.[to Hal]
I’m Stuart Hayford, your deputy chief of mission.[Stuart Hayford]I guess this is what arranged marriage feels like.[Kate Wyler]
I didn’t wanna be famous. You’re so famous nobody wants to work with you.[to Hal]