House of Cards 4×13

Chapter 52

& Ahmadi: And why you?
    Claire: Out of respect... for the gravity of this situation.
    Ahmadi: I think your intention is to humiliate me.
    Claire: You’ve been properly clothed, offered food. How are we humiliating you?
    Ahmadi: I’m sitting across from a woman.

& Claire: You’re a well-educated man, Yusuf... and you don’t care about Islam or the caliphate. You’re just using that to radicalize soldiers.
    Ahmadi: Just as you use democracy and freedom...
    Claire: ...So now we understand each other.

& Ahmadi: There’s no government in Iraq. There is no Iraq. There’s Baghdad. Shia, Sunni, Kurd... Syria is the same.

& Ahmadi: Use our guns on the men who carried it for us?
    Claire: What does it matter... if you have back your power?

& Claire: ...Or we can quietly work together. ICO fades, and you and your generals get control.

& Underwood: I know what this story is. Political sabotage, plain and simple. ... Why are you wasting America’s time with this, in the middle of this crisis? Where is your conscience?

& Hammerschmidt: He was right about your soul. What’s in your bones. That you’re ruthless. You’re corrupt. You destroy whatever’s in your path.
    Underwood: Hmm. Name me a president you wouldn’t describe in exactly the same way. We’re all ruthless. We all destroy. But corruption? That’s a matter of perspective.
    Hammerschmidt: No. It’s a matter of law.

& Underwood: Do you trust your instincts, Tom?
    Hammerschmidt: I always have.
    Underwood: Then look me in the eye... I’ve told you the truth.

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& Underwood: I’m frightened, Claire.
    Claire: If we can’t stop the damage, we have to control it, Francis. There is a solution. There always is.

& Underwood: Three weeks... then the election. It’s nothing. And then we lose. And they investigate... And everything we... Gone.
Ω And Season 5!

& Claire: ...if we make this... we make it work for us.
    Underwood: Create chaos.
    Claire: More than chaos...
    Underwood: War.
    Claire: Fear.
    Underwood: Fear. Brutal. Total.

& Claire: I’m done trying to win over people’s hearts.
    Underwood: Let’s attack their hearts.
    Claire: We can work with fear.
    Underwood: Yes, we can.
Ω Great.

& Claire: You should put on a fresh suit.
    Underwood: The navy blue.
    Claire: Yes, the navy blue.

& Underwood: ICO will be destroyed. We are at war. It will be a war more total than anything we have waged thus far in the fight against extremism. Soldiers will die. Civilians may die. There will be pain. There will be suffering. We will be confronted with the most horrific aspects of humanity. We will confront the inhuman. Evil itself. But we will triumph. It is not a war we will lose.

& Underwood: ...we must remember. To mourn is not to fear. To grieve is not to admit defeat. God bless America, and all of those who believe in freedom and democracy.

& Durant: This type of escalation—
    Underwood: Not escalation, Cathy. Obliteration.

& Underwood: We’re doing what’s necessary.

& Claire: Turn off the sound.

& Underwood: That’s right. We don’t submit to terror. We make the terror.

End of Season 4

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