Designated Survivor (TV Series)

Outbreak (2017)

LaMonica Garrett: Mike Ritter

Quotes 

• Mike Ritter : Is Reverend Dale in there? I was hoping to meet him.

  [Kendra steps aside; Mike opens the door, hears the commotion inside, and shuts it again] 

  Mike Ritter : I'll come back.

• Mike Ritter : Reverend Dale, may I lead you out, sir?

  Rev. Tramer Dale : No. But you may walk with me.

• Tom Kirkman : Did you get a chance to talk to the reverend?

  Mike Ritter : Yes, sir. And I shook his hand. It's one of the many things I'll get to tell my grandchildren.

  Tom Kirkman : He's seen so much. I can't help but wonder what he honestly thinks about where we are. What about you, Mike? What do you think about where we are?

  Mike Ritter : Sir, this country's Constitution originally said I was 3/5 of a person. That's where we started. But I'm more interested in where we're headed.

  Tom Kirkman : We need to do better.

  Mike Ritter : Yeah. But we've also come a long way. My great-grandfather was a sharecropper, and my dad was an auto mechanic. And I'm in the Oval Office talking to the President of the United States.

  Tom Kirkman : You didn't mention your grandfather. What happened to him?

  Mike Ritter : He was a drunk. Progress can sometimes skip a generation.

• Tom Kirkman : It's 2017. We should be talking about anything and everything but this.

  Mike Ritter : But we're not, sir. And as long as we're having the conversation, you're the person I want to be having it with. You've got the boat pointed in the right direction.

  Tom Kirkman : Thank you, Mike. Well, here's to hoping one day, we can all learn to row together.

  Mike Ritter : It's all we can do, sir.