House of Cards 4×8

Chapter 47

& Thomas: I’m on the Marxist side of Democrat. Why would I help a Republican?
    Conway: You’d be helping yourself, Tom. And if that helps us a little bit along the way, what’s the harm in that?

& — Can you walk us through how the filtering algorithms work?
    Aidan: We’ll take firearms, for instance. If we start with everyone who legally owns a gun, track geo-location patterns through their phones, we start to put together a portrait of where gun-owners live, eat, shop, everything.
    From this, we predict everyone who might want a firearm, but who isn’t registered. They’re likely to exhibit the same behavior as people who are. You can use that for people who are interested in Arabic, uh, wanna travel to the Middle East, who are disillusioned with the U.S. government...
    — So the same techniques that we’re using for our international surveillance.
    Aidan: Yes... but far more advanced.

& Thomas: You’re just a messenger, Doug. You got your message.

& Underwood: One part really caught my eye... «A chasm opened up between them, a hallway less than ten yards wide. But it might as well have been a thousand miles. A well-appointed no man’s land with a plush carpet and high ceiling between two bedrooms. In it were two centuries of ghosts, all the Presidents and First Ladies before them. But also the ghost... of their marriage. A thirty years’ war that left them both dead inside and this dead space between them...»
    Claire: He’s perceptive.

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& Underwood: People will want to believe it’s true even if it’s false.

& Thomas: Saying nothing says a lot sometimes.

& Conway: Brave is never giving up. You fight, no matter what.

& Underwood: The only problem with common sense is that it’s so... common.

& Underwood: No, no. We make it so that Cathy wins. We’ll just make it look like the party chose her. And think of the coverage. We’ll own the news!
    Birch: You want the convention to be a circus.
    Underwood: Oh, Bob, I’m not sure if you’ve noticed or not, but politics is no longer just theater, it’s show business. So let’s put on the best show in town.

& Hammerschmidt: All right. A journey of a thousand miles...

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