NSF Thurmont
Leo: Just skip to the part that’s going to piss me off
Toby: That’s going to be all of it.
Season 06
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The Birnam Wood
Bartlet: Whether you choose to do this today or ten years from today, you will face the same geography, the same neighbors, the same ancient animosities. More years of bloodshed and pain will not change those facts. The only path to a real and lasting peace is through negotiation.
Third-Day Story
Bartlet: Josh, perhaps you could shed some light on this State Department cable: ‘Turkmenistan to U.S.: We didn’t order these pizzas.’
Josh: Bet you’re thinking there’s a really good explanation for that, sir.
Liftoff
C.J.: [to Margaret] You’re an odd woman and I’ve never quite understood you. But you are extremely capable and you run this office like a Swiss watch. And you’re tall, which is reassuring. Leo may need you and if he does, that’s okay. But if he’s willing to part with you, I hope you’ll stay.
The Hubbert Peak
Bartlet: [to C.J.] I’m noticing a distinct slackening of awe, a certain lack of trembling in my presence.
The Dover Test
Leo: One difference between the Mahatma and myself. I warn you there are others. You may browbeat me into using the breath spirometer. You may mother me about wound care. You may dole out the vicodin like my AA sponsor. You may even entertain me with nutrition lectures.
Nurse: You need to eat.
Leo: You may not — may not — offer fashion advice.
A Change is Gonna Come
Hoynes: [to Josh] It’s time to start leading. You’re never going to be Leo McGarry to Jed Bartlet. But you can be Leo to me. I’m running for President. I want you with me. I want you to run my campaign.
In the Room
Will: [to Josh] He’s smart enough to take your advice… Bob Russell might be the next President of the United States. You get in now, you can make him the candidate you want him to be. After that we make him the President we need him to be.
Impact Winter
Bartlet: [about to be carried downstairs] I’m just saying, you drop me, that’s a moment that follows you the rest of your life.
Opposition Research
Josh: [after Santos admits he only became a candidate to get a couple of months of media exposure for his education plan] I gave up everything for this! You aren’t even in it to win?
Santos: Maybe we have a different definition of winning, Josh.
365 Days
Leo: We’ve been here seven trips around the sun. Done some things we’re proud of, things we’re less pleased about… It may be time for us to take our own temperature; an internal inventory… What’s done. What’s undone. What’s done that we’d like to undo or do over.
King Corn
Vinick: I read about that education plan you introduced in New Hampshire. That’s pretty gutsy stuff…
Santos: Saw the ethanol speech.
Vinick: Well, that wasn’t gutsy so much as suicidal. Or so my staff tells me…. My staff is very proud.
Santos: Well, if they weren’t, I was.
Vinick: You’re not an ethanol fan?
Santos: Not until today.
The Wake Up Call
Bartlet: All I have in this situation is influence. Influence and relationships. If you take that away from me, I am powerless!
Freedonia
Josh: How about our exclusion from the debates. Let’s try that.
Aide: So, what do we do? Film chicken coops and say they’re too chicken to debate us?
Josh: I want two volunteers. I want them in giant chicken suits. I want them in my office first thing in the morning.
Drought Conditions
C.J.: You want me to hire Cliff Calley? No. He’s the wrong choice. And he’s irritating. And he’s obnoxious.
Leo: That’s worked for us in the past.
A Good Day
Will: [on the tiff with Canada] The Vice President advocates a hard line.
Kate: Permanent lockout in the NHL? Maple syrup embargo? Turn off Niagara Falls?
La Palabra
Santos: The Governor has already endorsed Hoynes… Nothing I say tomorrow is going to make a difference. We need to focus on electing a Progressive candidate. Then we can take on all the tough causes.
La Palabra Rep: Now all we need is a progessive candidate.
Ninety Miles Away
Senator Framingham: We were close once, back then.
Leo: No. Senator, we just drank back then. We were never close.
In God We Trust
Vinick: I don’t see how we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government. And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there, if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to. They won’t all lie to you but a lot of them will. And it will be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes. So, every day until the end of this campaign, I’ll answer any question anyone has on government, But if you have a question on religion, please go to church.
Things Fall Apart
Leo: How are you feeling, Sir.
Bartlet: Vexed, riled, irked.
Leo: The Republican Convention.
Bartlet: Ticked, honked, pissed.
Leo: You can’t take it personally.
2162 Votes
Bartlet: A national security leak during the Democratic convention! Are we working for the Republicans now? They’re going to whack us for the security leak and then whack us again for dithering over saving the lives of brave astronauts.
