Scandal (TV Series)

You Can't Take Command (2015)

Tina Lifford: CIA Director Lowry

Quotes 

• Cyrus Beene : This is an enormous secret intelligence organization operating behind the CIA's back for who knows how long. About 30-ish years, if it did exist, which it doesn't.

  CIA Director Lowry : Well, it stops now. I am having this Rowan arrested, brought in, and brought down. I won't have it.

  Cyrus Beene : Honey, I'm gonna call you honey because I can't remember your first name and I don't care. Honey, you want to be reasonable about this. Because a shadow intelligence organization operating quite happily and powerfully in secret for decades inside the FBI, CIA, NSA, if there was such a thing, well, that would be like a sleeping lion. And isn't it safer To tiptoe around the lion? What do you think happens if you poke the lion? Whose face does the lion rip off first? I think it rips off honey's face first.