- Ambassador Odilon Bokassa: The Beko, like wayward children, scream at even the slightest discipline. But such whining is to be expected as our nation purifies itself of decadent and poisonous outside influences.
- Elizabeth McCord: By that, do you mean educated women, or expensive watches?
- Father Laurent Vasseur: Wasn't it, um, Thomas Aquinas who once said that a man of God who is not in trouble is not doing his job?
- Henry McCord: I'm pretty sure he never said anything of the kind.
- Father Laurent Vasseur: Well, he should have.
- Elizabeth McCord: [about evidence on Nadine] Where'd you get this?
- Blake Moran: Harvard Assistants' Mafia.
- Elizabeth McCord: Three words you rarely hear strung together.
- Blake Moran: Yet they constitute a thing.
- Elizabeth McCord: Nice work.
- Father Laurent Vasseur: Such is the world, Henry. Drowning in blood and irony.
- [picking up his phone]
- Father Laurent Vasseur: So now, the Lord has made miracles with this blessed little device before. Let's see if He's with us today.
- Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord: Do you remember in the fifth grade when I almost quit that school backpacking trip because I was afraid of heights, and I really didn't want to go rock-climbing?
- Elizabeth McCord: You would be amazed how much parents block out.
- Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord: And do you remember what you said to me when I called you in a panic?
- Elizabeth McCord: No, but I feel like I'm about to be embarrassed.
- Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord: You said, "Honey, you are the descendent of some of the greatest heroes and scoundrels that the Commonwealth of Virginia has ever seen. If you've got one thing "running through your veins, it's guts. Now, don't call me back until you're at the top of that mountain, little girl."
- Elizabeth McCord: I actually said that?
- Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord: Yup.
- Elizabeth McCord: Oh, what a pain in the ass I am.
- [laughing]
- Elizabeth McCord: And why did I sound like Dolly Parton?
- Ambassador Odilon Bokassa: [about her human rights assertions] Madam Secretary, I found your speech most distressing.
- Elizabeth McCord: I'm very pleased to hear that.