Brothers & Sisters

As a follow-up to the recap, here are some memorable lines from the episode “Mistakes Were Made Part 2.” Did I miss your favorites? Add them in the comments.

Justin: I enlisted today.
Nora: Enlisted in what?
Justin: In the miitary.
Tommy: Is this like the time you wanted to be a roadie for Linkin Park?
Kevin: Or open the brewery?
Tommy: Or the karate school? “Dudes, it’s called a dojo.”
Justin: Guys, I’m serious. I went to the recruitment office today and joined the Army.
Kevin: As in the Army, the actual Army, the guys with the missiles and tanks.
Tommy: Hey, look, it’s too soon to be makng jokes.
Nora: He’s not joking.

Justin: I may be your son, but I’m not your child anymore. I’m an adult and I can make my own decisions.
Sarah: Oh come on, Justin, you don’t even carry your own credit cards. You really think you’re old enough to carry a gun?

Kevin: Justin, she’s a radio personality. Half of what she says she doesn’t mean.

Nora: New Horizons. Sunset Acres. Bradley Ridge Detox and Spa.
Sarah: Maybe we can get a family rate.

Kevin: As vice president, he does have to consent to the conveyance of any corporate asset valued over 1 million.
Sarah: Well, I’m a mother of two and I’m responsible for the candied yams at Thanksgiving. I don’t have time to road trip to Nevada.

Kevin: As company president, you do have a fiduciary obligation to make an informed decision.
Sarah: No, I don’t.
Kevin: Yeah, you do.
Sarah: Stop saying legal things just to piss me off.

Kitty: Divorce is not news.
Warren: Messy divorces are news, and this one was messy. I mean, the guy’s the best-looking man in a 20-square-foot radius of DC and his wife left him for his chief of staff.
Staffer: After she found him in bed with the nanny!
Jack: That’s what she said. The nanny denies it.
Warren: See? News!

Warren: Hey, you okay? There’s been some talk around these parts of you finally acting like a Republican.
Kitty: Ah. You mean, bitchy?
Warren: You said it, not me.

Nora: I’ll stop by the video store. You want me to pick you up anything?
Justin: Yeah, Black Hawk Down.
Nora: Nice to see attempting suicide has not hurt your sense of humor.

Kitty: So I have an interview with Senator McCallister, but then when I come back I’d love to help.
Nora: Oh, Kitty, sweetie pie, I don’t know how to say this delicately, but I’m not cremating anything.
Kitty: I am an excellent cook. In fact, some people even call me a chef.
Nora: Some with a really good sense of humor.

Nora: He came back earlier this morning, about four pies ago.

Tommy: This is ridiculous. Country, light country and static.
Kevin: Pick the static.

Sarah: He’s going to get himself killed.
Tommy: He’s pouring water into the radiator. He’ll be fine.
Sarah: I’m talking about Justin.
Tommy: He can handle himself. He’s not a baby.
Sarah: I didn’t say he was.
Tommy: But you treat him like one. You all do. You all complain and you worry and you don’t see that you’re responsible.
Sarah: How am I responsible?
Tommy: We all are. I mean, every self-destructive thing he’s ever done, including enlisting in the military, he did to prove that he’s not the baby of the family.

Robert: I have an idea. How about instead of grilling me on my private and intensely painful public divorce on national television, I take you out for an espresso.

Nora: Oh, please, we were attacked. This country’s going to bomb something. It’s the American way.

Kitty: He just wants to be part of something.
Nora: He is a part of something. He’s a part of this family, and even if you don’t appreciate that, he does.

Sarah: The island on Lost has more civilization than this place.

Kevin: Where are you going?
Sarah: Well, if I’m going to sleep in a rental car, I’m not going to do it sober.

Kevin: Oh, wow, this is straight out of A Few Good Men.
Sarah: More than a few.

Nora: You are so sweet, David. I think you should run screaming from me as if you were on fire.

Nora: David, don’t be a stranger. I don’t want you to feel as though every time you come here you have to nail something … I didn’t say that right.
David: Sure you did.

Justin: Kitty knew. The only way she could get a life was to get as far away from you as possible.

Sarah: Dance, Tommy!
Tommy: Couldn’t you just kill me instead?

Sarah: I feel like Nick Nolte’s mug shot.

Tommy: He was our dad!
Sarah: Not just ours.

Kitty: In the interview that you are about to see, I asked Senator McCallister about his stem-cell bill, his position on Iraq, and his aspiration toward higher executive office. What I didn’t ask him about was his recent divorce. Now, I wish I could say I didn’t ask the senator about his divorce because of some high-minded notion of journalistic integrity, but it was just the opposite. I have a brother who served in Afghanistan, and was recently called back to serve in Iraq. And I did the senator a favor in the hope that he would do me one and use his influence to keep my brother home. To keep him from fighting in a war that I have defended on this very program. Senator McCallister rightly refused to help me. His integrity remains intact, but mine, however, less so. Mistakes were made. President Ronald Reagan said those words 20 years ago at a time when admitting a mistake was perceived as a sign of strength, not weakness. I made a mistake. I made a mistake in compromising the interview that you are about to see, and I made a mistake in continuing to defend a war that is in desperate need of reexamination. Reexamination which cannot come until we acknowledge that the war itself was a mistake. None of this is meant to serve as an excuse for my own conduct, but I do hope that you will find it in your hearts to accept my apology.

Kevin: Oh, my God.
Sarah: Don’t tell me. Dad used to be a woman.

Saul: Please warn me in advance which entrees were prepared with Kitty’s loving hands.

Robert: I could use someone like you on my communications staff.
Kitty: You’re offering me a job on your staff.
Robert: No, as my nanny.

Brothers & Sisters, ABC, Mistakes Were Made Part 2