1- Kimble Hookstraten : I don’t trust anyone who has things handed to them in life, especially power.
2- Tom Kirkman : If everybody is so afraid of losing, how on earth can anyone ever win?
3- Alex Kirkman : An opportunist with a credible threat is a dangerous thing.
4- Tom Kirkman : Technology changes. Human biology doesn’t.
5- Tom Kirkman : Without truth, there can be no trust.
6- Seth Wright : That’s what a relationship is. It’s about losing control. It’s about surrendering.
7- Tom Kirkman : Your problem wasn’t my scruples. It was your lack of them.
8- Seth Wright : Tragedy either makes people appreciate their fellow men, or fear them.
9- Tom Kirkman : We’re not defined by our difficulties. We’re defined by how we respond to them.
10- Tom Kirkman : We’re gonna do our jobs. And we’re gonna keep doing them until someone makes us stop.
11- Mike Ritter : Progress can sometimes skip a generation.
12- Tom Kirkman : Bullets don’t stop bleeding. They start it.
13- Lyor Boone : There are battles you lose even if you win.
14- Tom Kirkman : It’d be a lot easier if someone left behind a manual.
15- Tom Kirkman : This is what you get for being honest in D.C., opportunism.
16- Tom Kirkman : Art is the lifeblood of society.
17- Hannah Wells : Sometimes you need to take what you think you know, throw it out the window, and follow your instincts because your life depends on it.
18- Cornelius Moss : Sometimes you have to decide between a bad choice and no choice at all.
19- Mike Ritter : Two ways the President and his family can leave the White House… Out the front door in Kevlar vests and a 13-car armored motorcade or out the back in a Chevy and a ball cap.
20- Cornelius Moss : Meeting with an enemy is a civilized thing to do.
21- Hannah Wells : You don’t take credit for something until you’re done.
22- Tom Kirkman : It’s not always up to us how history plays itself out.
23- Tom Kirkman : An architect’s first responsibility is to the people who are affected by his work.
24- Kimble Hookstraten : We all want to do the right thing, Mrs. Kirkman. But the right thing is seldom free.
25- Seth Wright : When your ship’s taking on water, you don’t jump, you grab a bucket.
26- Seth Wright : Tragedy either makes people appreciate their fellow men, or fear them.
27- Seth Wright : When people don’t know who their enemy is, they start with people who look like me.
28- Alex Kirkman : You always need to make time for the things that are important.
29- Tom Kirkman : We’re not defined by our difficulties. We’re defined by how we respond to them.
30- Tom Kirkman : I don’t need a nuclear solution. I need a political one.
31- Tom Kirkman : Doing the right thing doesn’t always make you feel good.
32- Jason Atwood : What’s on the paper, that tells a story that we want to tell. But what’s not on the paper, that’s what people remember.
33- Tom Kirkman : My country is predicated on the idea that one man matters. One man can make a difference.
34- Hannah: She’s not hunting you anymore. We’re hunting her.
35- Seth Wright : There are three surefire ways for a press secretary to die a quick death. You get hostile, you lie, or you guess. You do any one of those three things, and you’re done.
36- Alex Kirkman : Change does not mean that we abandon our principles.
37- Seth Wheeler : When your ship’s taking on water, you don’t jump, you grab a bucket.
38- Seth Wright : Maybe it’s just easier to lie to the world than it is to be honest with yourself.
39- Hannah Wells : If you ever try to take me out again, you better not miss. Because I won’t.
40- Alex Kirkman : Putting more bars on the prison is not the answer.
41- Tom Kirkman : If everybody is so afraid of losing, how on earth can anyone ever win?
42- Tom Kirkman : I never thought I’d be in a position to decide who lives or dies.