The West Wing Quote(s) of the Day

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February 2012

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Inauguration: Over There (4.15)
  • CJ: The guy across the street is beating up a pregnant woman. You don't go over and try and stop it?
  • Toby: Guy across the street is beating up anybody, I like to think I go over and try to stop it. But we're not talking about the President going to Asia or the President going to Rwanda or the President going to Qumar. We're talking about the President sending other people's kids to do that.
  • CJ: That's always what we're talking about, and in addition to being somebody's kids, they're soldiers and sailors. And if we're about freedom from tyranny, then we're about freedom from tyranny, and if we're not, we should shut up.
  • Josh: Yes.
  • Toby: Back at the office, you were telling Will -
  • CJ: He said that to Will cause that's what we say.
  • Toby: You were't even there.
  • CJ: It's what we always say.
  • Toby: On Sunday, he's taking an oath to ensure domestic tranquilty.
  • CJ: And to establish justice and promote the general welfare. Stand by while atrocities are taking place, and you're an accomplice.
  • Toby: I'm not indifferent to that, but knuckleheaded self-destruction is never going to burn itself out? You really want to send your kids across the street into the fire?
  • CJ: Want to? No. Should I? Yes.
  • Toby: Why? And don't give me a lefty answer.
  • CJ: A lefty answer is all I've got.
  • Toby: Why are you sending your kids across the street?
  • CJ: Cause those are somebody's kids, too.
Feb 25, 201227 notes
#The West Wing #inauguration: over there #cj cregg #Toby Ziegler #josh lyman
Arctic Radar (4.10)
  • Amy: It's about Vicky Hilton. And I'm here in no official capacity and I'm wielding nothing, but the League of Professional Women is going to represent her, and they've asked me if I could help get them time with the President.
  • Josh: There's no way the White House is going to get involved in it. It's a military thing.
  • Amy: Civilians run the military. Not only is it okay for you to get involved, you're supposed to. It's the law.
  • Josh: And the Commander in Chief chooses not to overrule his commanders.
  • Amy: He chooses to do that without hearing informed argument?
  • Josh: Yes. Cause then when he says no, I got a problem with women.
  • Amy: Except that my friends and I can give you a problem with women right now.
  • Josh: What happened to "I came wielding nothing"?
  • Amy: I forgot that women just got him re-elected. Evidently, you did too.
  • Josh: "Evidently, you did, too."
  • Amy: I met her last night. This is a special girl. I want to speak up for her.
  • Josh: All right, we'll talk in 15 minutes.
  • Amy: "All right, we'll talk in 15 minutes."
  • Josh: Shut up.
  • Amy: You shut up.
  • Leo: Oh, God help me somedays.
Feb 21, 20129 notes
#arctic radar #The West Wing #josh lyman #amy gardner #Leo McGarry
In This White House (2.4)
  • Ainsley: I've been thinking about that ever since your office called me on Tuesday, and I have something to say on my own behalf, if you'll permit me a moment to say it, and I understand if you won't, but I would really appreciate it if you did.
  • Leo: I didn't really follow that, but whatever.
  • Ainsley: I think that it is wrong for a man in your position to summon someone to the White House to reprimand them for voicing opposition. I think that that is wrong, and it is inappropriate. It's inappropriate, and I'll tell you what else.
  • Leo: It's wrong?
  • Ainsley: Yes.
  • Leo: That's fine. Except you weren't summoned here to be reprimanded.
  • Ainsley: Well, then, if you'll permit me, why was I summoned?
  • Leo: You have an interesting conversational style, do you know that?
  • Ainsley: It's a nervous condition.
  • Leo: I used to have a nervous condition.
  • Ainsley: How did yours manifest itself?
  • Leo: I drank a lot of scotch.
  • Ainsley: I get sick when I drink too much.
  • Leo: I get drunk when I drink too much.
Feb 20, 201247 notes
#in this white house #The West Wing #Leo McGarry #Ainsley Hayes
The Portland Trip (2.7)
  • Congressman Skinner: Josh, all the Marriage Recognition Act does is ensure that a radical social agenda isn't thrust upon an entire country that isn't ready for it yet.
  • Josh: 32 states have passed laws banning same-sex marriage. The states are doing a fine job protecting themselves from a radical social agenda without a federal shield.
  • Skinner: Josh.
  • Josh: I like you guys who want to reduce the size of government and make it just small enough so it can fit in our bedrooms.
Feb 17, 201232 notes
#the portland trip #The West Wing #josh lyman #probably already did this one #don't curr
The Black Vera Wang (3.19)
  • CJ: I'm driving myself home. You want to follow me in a chase car, that's fine. But you have been annoying me for six days. You annoyed me here for three days then you annoyed me in Finland. You're quiet, you're polite, and you're, you're there. You're always there. I can't shake you. You followed me to Scandinavia and back.
  • Simon: Well, that's-
  • CJ: Don't give me the aw shucks answer - well that's my job, ma'am. And don't call me ma'am. Don't call me ma'am, don't call me Ms. Cregg. This isn't a western.
  • Simon: I'm required to call you ma'am or Ms. Cregg. There are rules and regulations.
  • CJ: Okay, okay, secret agent man, here's my rules and regulations. I'm getting in my baby blue '65 Mustang convertible and I'm gonna feel the wind in my hair and any place else I want. You can look at my taillights.
  • Simon: I think I'm not allowed to do that either.
Feb 15, 201225 notes
#The Black Vera Wang #The West Wing #cj cregg #simon donovan
In The Shadow of Two Gunmen, part II (2.2)
  • CJ: This is our 5th press briefing since midnight. Obviously, there's one story that going dominating news around the world for the next few days, and it would be easy to think that President Bartlet, Joshua Lyman, and Stephanie Abbott were the only victims of a gun crime last night. They weren't. Mark Davis and Sheila Evans of Philadelphia were killed by a gun last night. He was a biology teacher and she was a nursing student. Tina Bishop and Linda Larkin were killed with a gun last night. They were 12. There were 36 homicides last night, 480 sexual assaults, 3411 robberies, 3685 aggravated assaults, all at gunpoint. And if anyone thinks those crimes could have been prevented if the victims themselves had been carrying guns, I'd only remind you that the President of the United States himself was shot last night while surrounded by the best trained armed guards in the history of the world. Back to the briefing.
  • Danny: She's good.
  • Leo: Yes, she is.
Feb 9, 2012112 notes
#In The Shadow of Two Gunmen #The West Wing #cj cregg #Danny Concannon #Leo McGarry
Manchester part 1 (3.1)
  • Toby: CJ.
  • CJ: Yeah?
  • Toby: You wanna play some pool?
  • CJ: I don't know how to play pool.
  • Toby: You wanna play for money?
  • CJ: Yeah.
Feb 3, 201214 notes
#manchester part 1 #the west wing #toby ziegler #cj cregg
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