Scandal (TV Series)

Everything's Coming Up Mellie (2013)

Barry Bostwick: Jerry Grant

Quotes 

• Cyrus Beene : [15 years earlier, with a full beard and tousled hair]  Well, he's tall, like you said. That's good. Nice head of hair. Also a plus. And where are we on schooling?

  Jerry Grant : Oh, Yale, Rhodes Scholar, Navy, Harvard Law, and...

  Cyrus Beene : That'll do. Hold it... The wife is perfect.

  Jerry Grant : She's gorgeous, isn't she?

  Mellie Grant : Thank you, Mr. Beene.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : What is this?

  Mellie Grant : I think it's our first step to the White House, baby.

• Jerry Grant : [15 years earlier]  A man doesn't a man doesn't need to run away to the Navy to to get away from his daddy! A man stands up. A man does what needs to be done!

  President Fitzgerald Grant : I stood up! I did what needed to be done.

  Jerry Grant : You had no business signing up for black ops missions.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : I aced flight school, top of my class, and because of you, they had me raising flags and shaking hands. They had me on a desk.

  Jerry Grant : You're a senator's son! You had a trust fund. You're a damn Grant!

  President Fitzgerald Grant : I was given the chance to do something, to fly. And then I was given an order.

  Jerry Grant : Grants don't take orders!

• President Fitzgerald Grant : [15 years earlier]  I won't run on a lie.

  Jerry Grant : What else you have to run on? What else have you accomplished? The only other thing you got going for you is that you're my son. That's it. That's all, you are my son - not as smart, not as interesting, but my son just the same. I made you! I could destroy you. So you'll do what you're told, and that's an order!

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Grants don't take orders.

• Jerry Grant : [to Mellie]  You know, that boy's never been grateful one day in his life for what he's got, what he's been given. He's just too sensitive. He's got too many feelings. And that's why he will never win. Good God, you're a beautiful woman.

  [suddenly puts his hand on her knee] 

• Jerry Grant : You are an asset.

  Mellie Grant : I am his wife.