- Francis Underwood: When, and if, Garrett Walker appears before this committee, do you think he'll betray the party?
- Jim Matthews: You mean you?
- Francis Underwood: Well, that *would* be the same thing.
- Thomas Yates: What's my role?
- Claire Underwood: What?
- Thomas Yates: What am I to you, anyway? Or you, to me? I mean, are you my girlfriend? And when you win does that make me, like, First Boyfriend? First Concubine?
- [first lines]
- Claire Underwood: [entering] Why do you keep playing with that?
- Francis Underwood: [playing with software that morphs her face into his] Because I'm skeptical. Do you think this really works?
- Claire Underwood: It's just about making the candidate seem familiar, so that the voter sees herself in him. But you've gone too far.
- [moves the dial toward her own image]
- Claire Underwood: There. Congratulations, Francis. You have my vote.
- Thomas Yates: You mad at me?
- Claire Underwood: [sighs] You shouldn't have said that.
- Thomas Yates: I know. I know we need to be careful.
- Claire Underwood: [sighs]
- [chuckles]
- Claire Underwood: Careful is far too small a word for what we need to be.
- Thomas Yates: [closing the door behind them] Okay. But don't you get tired of being far bigger than careful all the time?
- Will Conway: I haven't slept a good night's sleep since 2012. But I guess elected officials don't sleep so our constituents can.
- Seth Grayson: I wanna talk to your boss about the Declaration of War Committee.
- Bridget Cohen: So... if you're hoping to intimidate him because of the back taxes, you can save your breath. His closet is back to being clean.
- Seth Grayson: What about yours?
- Francis Underwood: We are engaged in the battle of our time. The question of what it is to be an American. The very essence of American-ness. How we choose to lead our lives, open and free, is on the line.
- Seth Grayson: Look, I'm guessing sooner or later, I get called. And if that happens, I could plead the Fifth. I could press secretary them all day long. But I'd like to have another option on the table. See, I can't be a public witness myself, but if you offer me anonymity and immunity, I can testify privately. Tell the committee where the bodies are buried, so to speak.
- Jim Matthews: Now, I don't know what really happened on your journey to replace me as vice president and then Garrett as president. I only know what my gut tells me. But I'm willing to say fuck my gut. Bottom line is I can help you with this committee or I can hurt you. Now, I can say that I know nothing, and that what I saw in Garrett Walker was a troubled man. And I can leave it at that.
- Francis Underwood: I am the president of the United States, for Chist's sake. I'm a bit busy.
- Claire Underwood: The past doesn't disappear on command, Francis. Not even for presidents.
- Catherine Durant: [to Donald Blythe] We could resign our posts, you know, in protest. I bet we could convince others of the cabinet to do the same thing.