Quotes from Pilot

Mason: "Six months ago I was eating dorm food and downing Jello shots. Look at me now. I'm in congress!"

Mason: "Do you remember the exact moment your idealism was crushed?"
Pete: "No, no I don't."

Finley: "I realized that all this schooling, all this preparation, has kept me from actually living my life. I'm like a butterfly trapped in a chrysalis. If I don't break free now I'll die!"
Mason: "You were watching 'Mariah Carey: Behind the Music,' weren't you?"
Finley: "Yes, but that is completely unrelated."

Sarah: "Where do you work?"
Pete: "This environmental group. Animals First. Greenpeace has whales, PETA has veal, we have all the loser animals."

Senator Abbott: "Wanna know how to get re-elected? Hire smart kids."

Pete: "It was senior year in high-school! Most of those brain cells have died an herbal death."

Finley: "If you hate your job so much, why don't you just quit?"
Mason: "Quitting's your thing, remember?"

Mason: "Shower doesn't work. That's why we use the one at the gym."
Finley: "What am I supposed to do?"
Mason: "Go back to your graduate school?"

Pete: "It's always good to have a lawyer in the house. We live in a litigious times."

Mason: "My idea of moving up does not involve stepping on the sun-dried carcasses of my colleagues."

Mason: "Do me a favor?"
Pete: "Name it."
Mason: "Don't sleep with my sister."
Pete: "Scout's honor."

Neil: "You're fired."
Mason: "I'm what?"
Neil: "You are fired. I want you out of the office by the time I get back."
Mason: "This is eighty percent your mistake. I wasn't the one who was speaking on the behalf of the senator."
Neil: "Well, guess what? You don't have as far to fall."

Mason: "I say we kick Neil's ass."
Pete: "Ah, let's get drunk and say we did."

Mason: "I came to D.C. because I wanted to be part of a system that would make people's lives better on a macro scale, even though it's often confused and frustrating. I think that's what government is supposed to be."

Senator Abbott: "Hey, son, how old are you?"
Mason: "22."
Senator Abbott: "I was your age when I came here, full of all kinds of impractical ideas. I truly believed I could change the world. What you see here, my career, everything... I'd give it all up to be you right now."

Mason: "Think about it, our entire lives are ahead of us."

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