The West Wing Quote(s) of the Day

November 2010

29 posts

20 Hours in America, part I (4.1)

• Cathy: Why aren't you there?
• Toby: It's tough to explain.
• Josh: No, it's not.
• Toby: Okay.
• Josh: The President has his blood pressure taken every morning. On higher blood pressure days, Toby's not allowed to be in the President's sight line while he's speaking.
• Cathy: Why?
• Toby: Stepped on it.
• Josh: He has trouble concealing his displeasure.

Nov 30, 20108 notes

#20 Hours in America #The West Wing #josh lyman #Toby Ziegler

Posse Comitatus (3.21)

• CJ: I said, I do like you.
• Simon: I meant the other way.
• CJ: So did I. I tried to kiss you.
• Simon: You said you didn't.
• CJ: I was lying, you idiot.
• Simon: All right, I'm switching sides now.
• CJ: I was embarrassed. I fumbled it.
• Simon: You didn't. I told you, I'm not allowed.
• CJ: It sounded like an excuse.
• Simon: It's not. Somebody is threatening to kill you. I can't be - I watched you for three seconds trying on dresses in Barney's and the guy shows up. I can't be -
• CJ: You watched me at Barney's?
• Simon: You're like the girl in Driver's Ed who won't watch the prom night movie because it's gross, and so ends up missing an important lesson about drinking and driving.

Nov 22, 20105 notes

#posse comitatus #The West Wing #simon donovan #cj cregg

We Killed Yamamoto (3.20)

• Leo: Just stop it already. This is the most horrifying part of your liberalism: you think there are moral absolutes.
• Bartlet: There are moral absolutes.
• Leo: Apparently not. He's killed innocent people, he'll kill more, so we have to end him. The village idiot comes to that conclusion before the Nobel Laureate.
• Bartlet: Il Principe has justified every act of oppression -
• Leo: This is justified. This is required.
• Bartlet: Says who?
• Leo: Says me, Mr. President! You want to go ask some more people, they'll say so, too.

Nov 22, 20104 notes

#We Killed Yamamoto #The West Wing #jed bartlet #Leo McGarry

The Black Vera Wang (3.20)

• Sam: What's this?
• Ginger: I don't know. It's marked personal.
• Sam: You don't know who sent it?
• Ginger: There's no return address.
• Sam: Think it's porn?
• Ginger: I don't know.
• Sam: Cause I'm pretty tired, but if it's porn, I mean really good porn -by the way if my innocent joking's making you uncomfortable in any way -
• Ginger: No, I'm hoping it's porn.

Nov 20, 20108 notes

#The Black Vera Wang #The West Wing #sam seaborn #ginger

Enemies Foreign and Domestic (3.18)

• CJ: Outraged? I'm barely surprised. This is a country where women aren't allowed to drive a car. They're not allowed to be in the company of any man other than a close relative. They're required to adhere to a dress code that would make a Maryknoll nun look like Malibu Barbie. They beheaded a hundred and twenty-one people last year for robbery, rape, and drug trafficking. They have no free press, no elected government, no political parties, and the Royal Family allows the Religious Police to travel in groups of six carrying nightsticks and they freely and publicly beat women. But Brutus is an honorable man. Seventeen schoolgirls were forced to burn alive because they weren't wearing the proper clothing. Am I outraged? No. That is Saudi Arabia, our partners in peace.

Nov 19, 20106 notes

#enemies foreign and domestic #The West Wing #cj cregg

Stirred (3.17)

• Sam: Toby had Capitals tickets.
• Josh: Good game?
• Sam: You know what I'd do if I - no, it wasn't. You know what I'd do if I owned a hockey team? I'd hire a sumo wrestler. I'd give him a uniform, transportation, 500 bucks a week to sit in the goal, eat a ham sandwich and enjoy the game. My team would never get scored on.
• Josh: Your team would get scored on constantly.
• Sam: Maybe, but we'd sell a few tickets.
• Josh: Yeah, 'cause sumo wrestling sells out all the time in big hockey towns.
• Sam: My idea's totally inviable?
• Josh: Well, you're a Democrat. It's a pretty big club.

Nov 17, 20103 notes

#stirred #The West Wing #sam seaborn #josh lyman

The US Poet Laureate (3.16)

• Ainsley: There's a difference between intellect and instinct.
• Sam: Two hundred fifty-two million people in the country. You don't think we'd ought to be able to elect somebody who's got both?
• Ainsley: I'm saying Presidents can have good advisors.
• Sam: Good advisors can better advise informed and curious Presidents.
• Ainsley: But what happens when Ivy League Presidents surround themselves with intellectual snobs?
• Sam: All right, let's clear up a couple of things, 'cause that's the second time you've invoked the "Evil Eight". First of all, Notre Dame isn't a member of the Ivy League. They play football as an independent, they play basketball in the Big East. Second, we're very interested in education in this White House, so can you tell me what's wrong with the Ivy League? Should we be discouraging parents from hoping their kids get into Princeton and Yale and Dartmouth?
• Ainsley: All I know is we got into Vietnam courtesy of the Beltway Chapter of the Harvard Alumni Association.
• Sam: Yeah, except that's not all you know because you're bright and you're curious and you worked hard, and you got into Smith and you got your law degree where? Cambridge, Massachusetts. You lose, I win. 'Twas ever thus.

Nov 17, 201010 notes

#The US Poet Laureate #The West Wing #sam seaborn #Ainsley Hayes

Dead Irish Writers (3.15)

• Sam: I need you to tell me everything you can tell me about the superconducting supercollider.
• Professor Milgate: How much time do we have?
• Sam: About ten minutes.
• Professor Milgate: If you pay very close attention and stay very, very quiet, I can teach you how to spell it.

Nov 16, 20109 notes

#dead irish writers #The West Wing #sam seaborn

Hartsfield's Landing (3.14)

• Leo: What are you doing?
• Josh: Just trying to get a little pizza in an uncivilized world.

Nov 15, 201014 notes

#hartsfield's landing #The West Wing #Leo McGarry #josh lyman

Night Five (3.13)

• Sam: Andy's in your office.
• Toby: You let her in my office?
• Sam: Yeah.
• Toby: What the hell did you let her in my office for?
• Sam: Okay, well, I'm going to step out for a minute and... not be in this area anymore.

Nov 15, 20105 notes

#night five #The West Wing #sam seaborn #Toby Ziegler

The Two Bartlets (3.12)

• CJ: So, the 4H convention -
• Toby: We're not going.
• CJ: I don't get it, how can you not want to see the butter cow?
• Toby: I'm that way.
• CJ: You understand it's a life-size cow made entirely of butter.
• Toby: We're not going.
• CJ: There's also a butter Elvis and a butter Last Supper which has, I swear to God, Toby -
• Toby: Butter on the table?
• CJ: It's got butter on the table! Right there between butter James and butter Peter, an almost mind-blowing vortex of art and material that dares the viewer to recall Marcel Duchamp.
• Toby: How do they keep it from melting?
• CJ: How, indeed.

Nov 14, 20109 notes

#the two bartlets #The West Wing #Toby Ziegler #cj cregg

100,000 Airplanes (3.11)

• Donna: How many words in the Gettysburg Address?
• Toby: 266.
• Donna: And the Ten Commandments?
• Toby: 173.
• Donna: So you really wouldn't think you'd need six thousand to discover how a plane ticket gets reimbursed.
• Toby: No.
• Donna: No.

Nov 12, 20104 notes

#100000 Airplanes #The West Wing #Donna Moss #Toby Ziegler

H. Con 172 (3.10)

• Leo: Okay, well, I'll just call the President and suggest to him that he allow a huge bipartisan vote on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives calling him a liar and that he welcome the result. Then I'm gonna flap my wings and fly to Neverland.
• Jordon: Leo.
• Leo: You think I am so desperate to save my ass, I'm gonna roll over on Jed Bartlet?
• Cliff: I don't think it's a matter of -
• Leo: I take a bullet for the President. He doesn't take one for me.

Nov 12, 20106 notes

#H Con 172 #The West Wing #Leo McGarry #cliff calley #jordon kendall

Bartlet For America (3.9)

• Jordon: You shouldn't be nervous.
• Leo: I swear to God, Jordon, the last thing I am right now is nervous.
• Jordon: Let's go.
• Leo: Did I win a Grammy for something?
• Jordon: Were you nominated?
• Leo: No.
• Jordon: That's ridiculous.
• Leo: Well, those things are so political.

Nov 11, 20102 notes

#bartlet for america #The West Wing #jordon kendall #Leo McGarry #i can't believe they spell her name jordon

The Women of Qumar (3.8)

• Bartlet: Is there any way I can help?
• Charlie: No thank you, sir.
• Bartlet: I'm a master of modern history. You can ask me anything.
• Charlie: What year did we pass the Clean Water Act?
• Bartlet: I don't know.

Nov 11, 20105 notes

#the women of qumar #The West Wing #jed bartlet #Charlie Young

The Indians in the Lobby (3.7)

• Bartlet: Were we talking about something?
• CJ: I don't know, sir. When I came in here, back in the late 50s, there was a purpose to it, but then one thing led to another and I blacked out. I mean, I can hang in there with the best of them, sir, but somewhere during the conversation about anise and coriander and the other fifteen spices you like to use to baste a turkey, I simply lost consciousness.
• Bartlet: You know that line you're not supposed to cross with the President?
• CJ: I'm coming up to it?
• Bartlet: No, no, look behind you.

Nov 11, 201025 notes

#The Indians in the Lobby #The West Wing #cj cregg #jed bartlet

Gone Quiet (3.6)

• Sam: Why are you so bent on countering these idiot leaflets?
• Bruno: 'Cause I am tired of working for candidates who make me think I should be embarrassed to believe what I believe, Sam. I'm tired of getting them elected. We all need some therapy, because somebody came along and said "liberal" means soft on crime, soft on drugs, soft on Communism, soft on defense, and we're gonna tax you back to the Stone Age because people shouldn't have to go to work if they don't want to. And instead of saying "Well, excuse me, you right-wing, reactionary, xenophobic, homophobic, anti-education, anti-choice, pro-gun, Leave It To Beaver trip back to the 50s," we cowered in the corner and said "Please, don't hurt me." No more.

Nov 10, 20109 notes

#gone quiet #The West Wing #sam seaborn #Bruno Gianelli

War Crimes (3.5)

• Abbey: It was a perfectly lovely homily on Ephesians 5:21. "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church, and gave himself up for her."
• Bartlet: Yeah. She's skipping over the part that says, "Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord, for a husband is the head of a wife as Christ is the head of the Church."
• Abbey: I do skip over that part.
• Bartlet: Why?
• Abbey: Because it's stupid.

Nov 10, 201013 notes

#war crimes #The West Wing #abbey bartlet #jed bartlet

On The Day Before (3.4)

• CJ: 23 Nobel Prize winners in the East Room. I couldn't get literature or, I don't know, peace or something?
• Leo: What's her problem?
• Toby: She thinks she won't be able to make conversation with the guy, but she's wrong 'cause she knows what year he was born and his name.
• CJ: You've got to be a cryptographer. They speak in combinations of letters that don't spell anything but end up meaning table salt.

Nov 9, 20103 notes

#on the day before #The West Wing #cj cregg #Toby Ziegler

Ways and Means (3.3)

• Bruno: The Pacers played last night against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

• Leo: Really.

• Bruno: Yeah.

• Leo: Who won?

• Bruno: Indiana, by 5 in double overtime.

• Leo: Well, now the repeal of the estate tax seems somehow insignificant.



Nov 8, 20105 notes

#Ways and Means #The West Wing #bruno gianelli #Leo McGarry