Scandal (TV Series)

Blown Away (2012)

Debra Mooney: Verna Thornton

Quotes 

• Verna Thornton : [sitting in her hospital bed]  You're gonna be President for about the next 15 minutes and then your time will be done, and I will be still be on the bench. If I have to rule from the confines of an iron lung, I will be on the bench!

  Sally Langston : The seat your butt is filling on the Supreme Court belongs to me to fill as I see fit. It was promised to me during the campaign. It is mine, and I mean to have it, and for someone other than a left-wing, baby-killing, homosexual loving, godless creature such as yourself. I want it now, and you will give it to me, because if you don't, I will leak to one of your liberal media papers that you have terminal cancer - that you had terminal cancer during the confirmation hearings, that you lied by omission about having terminal cancer to the American people, that the drugs coursing through your system, including the medical marijuana pills you take at night may possibly have clouded your judicial judgment. I will call into question every decision you have ever made from the bench of the highest court in the land. I will disgrace you in the eyes of your peers and in the annals of history. I will ruin what little time you have left on this earth, and I will be right to do so, because it is the God's honest truth.

  [standing up] 

  Sally Langston : Step down from the bench, Verna. I'm asking you nicely.

• Verna Thornton : [taunting Sally with an envelope in each hand]  I could give you my letter of resignation, or I could give you the name of the man who tried to kill the President. The most wanted man in the world, your Osama Bin Laden. One pill makes you larger. One pill makes you small.