Designated Survivor Quotes: “Designated Survivor” is a political thriller television series that premiered on ABC in September 2016. The show was created by David Guggenheim and stars Kiefer Sutherland in the lead role.
The premise of “Designated Survivor” centers around a catastrophic event during the State of the Union address. In the event of such an incident, one member of the presidential line of succession is selected to be the “designated survivor,” someone who is kept in a secure location away from the State of the Union in case of a disaster that wipes out the rest of the presidential line of succession.
Designated Survivor Quotes
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.
