House of Cards 2×13

Chapter 26

& Megan: What do you care?
    Claire: I care very much.
    Megan: No, you don’t. You don’t use somebody you care about.

& Underwood: Let’s work together, as we always intended to do.
    Tusk: When they put you in that box barely bigger than a coffin... remember how beautiful the music was tonight. It might give you some small degree of comfort.
    Underwood: Puccini’s a downer. I prefer something much more optimistic.

& Underwood: I cannot force a man who thinks I’m his enemy to suddenly call me his friend.
    Claire: I’ve done what I had to do. Now you do what you have to do. Seduce him. Give him your heart. Cut it out and put it in his fucking hands.

& Remy: I could just walk away from it all, start a new life.
    Jackie: No, you can’t. You know you can’t. You’d wither away anywhere but the Hill. It’s never been about the money, no matter what you tell yourself.

& Remy: When I left, Frank begged me to stay. Power vs. money, he said. Don’t reduce myself to a tax bracket.
    Jackie: He was right. And I doubt he begged.
    Remy: He was half right. Power is better than money, for as long as it lasts. But it never lasts.

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& — Danton just cancelled.
    Dunbar: Screw Danton. We’ve got Tusk. Get me the attorney general.

& Underwood: He’s in the darkness now. And I’m the only beacon of light. Now we gently guide him toward the rocks.

& Doug: Why should I trust you?
    Gavin: ’Cause we both have too much to lose, man.
Ω Nothing's ended.

& President Walker: Well, you’re about to become the most powerful man in the free world...

& President Walker: Well... shall we go introduce the 46th president of the United States?

& — We’d like to give you a national security briefing right away, sir.
    Underwood: I’m aware of the particulars. Please get Beijing on the phone.
    — Qian hasn’t returned the president’s calls for two days.
    Underwood: Well, there’s a new president now. Please get him on the line.

& Durant: It diminishes the integrity of our State Department.
    Underwood: What’s more important, Cathy, integrity or peace?
    Durant: You know they’ll execute him.
    Underwood: The Chinese are right about one thing: Sometimes you have to sacrifice the one for the many. Let’s get back to Washington.

& Claire: You go ahead.
    Underwood: Come on. We earned this together.
    Claire: Take a few moments for yourself first... I’ll be out here.

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