House of Cards 3×2

Chapter 28

& Claire: What are you going to do?
    Underwood: Top 50 bundlers from last cycle. I don’t need the leadership if I can get the money. ... I’ve always said that power is more important than money. But when it comes to elections, money gives power... well, a run for its money.

& Underwood: If I made every decision based on what makes people feel good, I’d be a talk show host, not the president...

& Underwood: It’s humiliating to have to beg from some kid who was on Facebook before his testicles descended, but that’s— Derrick, Francis Underwood. Do you have a few minutes?

& Ayla: You chose me. What’s your play?
    Jackie: When you write about presidents, people pay attention.

& Underwood: I have every intention of running for president. ... Nancy, wipe the schedule clean... Yes, everything. We don’t leave this office until we have a plan.

& Willa: Ma’am? Final tally: 52 to 48. Against.

& Claire: A black egg?
    — Yes, with patriotic tipping.
    Claire: It’s still a black egg.
    — Engraved with POTUS and FLOTUS signatures.

& Underwood: You can’t change the laws of physics, can you? I was wrong. It’s too hard. ... We have to reverse our thinking. When the wind’s blowing at gale force, there’s no point in sailing against it.
    Seth: What do you have in mind?..

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& Underwood: Tonight, I give you the truth. And the truth is this: The American dream has failed you. Work hard? Play by the rules? You aren’t guaranteed success. Your children will not have a better life than you did...

& Underwood: We’ve been crippled by Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, by welfare, by entitlements. And that is the root of the problem: entitlements. Let me be clear. You are entitled to nothing. You are entitled to nothing.

& Underwood: Far be it from me to tell you how to do your job. I’ve never practiced law a day in my life. But I have written them. And occupying this office, I know what the country needs. It needs closure...
    Dunbar: Let me work on a new argument.
    Underwood: Thank you, Heather.
    Dunbar: Thank you, Mr. President.

& Claire: I know you’ll take a hit politically. And I know people will think I don’t deserve it. They’ll have doubts in me. But what if... this is as far as we get? What if it’s all over in 18 months? I don’t want to wait, or settle for something else, when I’ve put all this work into—
    Underwood: Okay. I’ll do it.

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