Madam Secretary (TV Series)

Snap Back (2016)

Wallis Currie-Wood: Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord

Quotes 

• Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord : [explaining her desire to attend an Ivy League law school for the sake of doing non-profit, social-cause work]  To do good you have to *be* good... I mean, maybe the best? The bad guys, they have all the help they need. But regular people who just need help? They... they have to settle for whoever they can get and usually it's no and...

  Russell Jackson : Okay. I'm going to give you a piece of advice, and I want you to listen closely 'cause you won't hear it from your parents, Stephanie McCord.

  Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord : Okay.

  Russell Jackson : If you want to do good...

  [breaths in audibly; sighs] 

  Russell Jackson : you've got to be prepared to do bad. Okay? To be canny and watchful and mean, so *when* the bad guys come, you know just where to stick the knife, 'cause it is a fight to the death, and that is the *only language* they understand.

  Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord : I don't believe that.

  Russell Jackson : [sighs]  You will.