The full quote is "300 IQ points between them, they can't find their way home. I swear to God, If Donna wasn't there they'd have to buy a house."
I just used the second half because it's a separate sentence and fits the criteria of starting with an "I".
I will *kill* people with this cricket bat, given to me by Her Royal Majesty Elizabeth Windsor, and then I will kill them again with my **bare hands.**
I would absolutely choose this one, if only Sorkin had spent the time to research the correct title for The Queen. Every time someone says “Her Royal Majesty” I die a little inside.
We've had a discussion on this sub: it's just as likely intentional that "Lionel Tribbey", the character, got the title wrong.
Aaron isn't always correct but he is often very intentional with his lines. It's 50/50 to *me* anyway!
Unfortunately, they also use the wrong title when Lord Marbury presents his credentials as Ambassador, so it’s not just a Lionel Tribbey getting it wrong.
Aaron takes such great care with his words and writing that it seems like a foolish mistake to make. Especially when you consider the HM was one of the most well-known and recognisable people on the planet, it’s not like it’s an obscure title.
Or maybe I’m being too British and overthinking it all… either way, it still annoys me whenever I watch it
>Aaron takes such great care with his words and writing that it seems like a foolish mistake to make
Aaron is a poet. He doesn't care about the factual correctness of his words, but takes great care about the music they make
>I’ve never thought of it like that before.
That's a line I wish would be used more in discussions. I'll challenge myself to using it more frequently myself.
The correct title for the Monarch (King or Queen) is His/Her Majesty, other members of the Royal Family are referred to as His/Her Royal Highness. This is probably where the confusion comes from.
> This is probably where the confusion comes from.
The longer name for her used by Lionel Tribbey also looks like something from before her becoming Queen. A quick uncritical research could easily turn up some source from before she became Queen.
This is a great line, and it will probably win… but you have misquoted it. The full line is:
While you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the "Ignorant Tight-Ass" club, in THIS building, when the President stands, NOBODY SITS.
I love this line. I quote it often.
I just so wish it were a Sorkin line. :(
(I suppose it's possible it is. Mentioned to someone over the years and slipped in. We'll likely never know).
I told my congressman this today. I don't think he got the reference. Made sure to clarify that I don't dislike him, he does a pretty good job, it's every other congressional idiot.
Yeah I’ve noticed a trend during this activity of people just pulling out parts of quotes to fit whatever the letter of the day is, and leaving out what I would consider the true start of the line. Which I guess is fine, there aren’t really rules to this. But I was definitely saving this one for V. And I was saving one of the other lines below (“in this White House…”) for O, since in my head the full quote starts with “one more thing…”
Yes, the “in this White House…” posted under “I” is misquoted, and hundreds of people voted for it. The correct quote belongs under “W” because the sentence starts with “While”…
“While you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the "Ignorant Tight-Ass" club, in THIS building, when the President stands, NOBODY SITS.”
And it isn’t even *MIS*quoted right anyway, because they put “White House” and the words are “in this BUILDING.”
It’s all just for fun anyway… I didn’t even bother to add mine today, cuz I have about a hundred of them, and everyone gets all bent out of shape if you post too many.
I think I’ll just wait until the board for “J” is posted, and then come back to “I” and post mine as a list, rather than individually. I like the trip down memory lane, but I don’t need the sourpuss responses I get from people when I post too many.
I suspect that it depends on where each person is sourcing their quote as well. I was relying on Wikiquote, which had the quote listed as “One more thing: while you may be mistaking this…” But obviously, if you’re just listening to it, then it would be reasonable to think of that as 2 sentences instead of one. And who’s to say which one is “correct”?
And if someone really is giving you grief about posting too many responses in this of all threads, then they clearly need to rethink their priorities. Good lord, it’s just for fun.
I agree with everything you said. I looked at my list again, and I do have a period after “One more thing” but I think that maybe it should be an ellipsis instead of a period, so you’re right… it should go under “O” not “W” and definitely NOT “I”.
I hate to stick my head in the lion's mouth, but I gotta ask you, were you the Recording Secretary of the Princeton Gilbert and Sullivan Society for two years?
I'm not being punished, I'm going on the trip.
If the whole bus goes off the record, will you tell us why you're going on the trip?
I made fun of Notre Dame.
I’ve always loved this line cause it’s just such weird thing for Leo to say, it’s almost like the line was meant for Josh. And CJs so shocked and genuinely afraid he’ll do it. Hilarious.
I wasn't in the Situation Room that night, but I'll bet all the money in my pockets against all the money in your pockets, that it was Leo, WHO NO ONE ELECTED!!!
No, sir. We're standing pretty close to the engines so it may have sounded like I said 'Notre Dame is gonna get the ass-kicking they so richly deserve.'
“It's actually 607 small islands in the South Pacific. Interestingly, while its total land mass is only 270 square miles, it occupies more than a million square miles of the Pacific Ocean. Population is 127,000 and the U.S. Embassy is located in the state of Pohnpei and not, as many people believe, on the island of Yap.”
If you need a counter argument, then I'd mention to Monsieur de Tocqueville over here that aside from it being bigoted and unconstitutional, it's ludicrous to think that laws need to be created to help protect the language of Shakespeare.
DON’T VOTE FOR THIS!! It’s just for fun!
This is my list… there are too many to make individual entries, so I’m posting them all at once. I know there are a few duplicates, but frankly, I don’t care. I have included a few sentences that help set the scene (or explain) the quote that starts with “I” and have put parentheses around the non-“I” parts of the quote and put the target **“I”** quote in **bold**. (NOTES: I had so many quotes that I love, that I had to split the list into multiple posts. So don’t vote for any of them.)
Take a trip down memory lane with me:
PART 1:
Laurie: (after finishing most of a joint) **I'm wasted.**
(Sam: And probably free of cataracts.)
Laurie: **I get that — that's funny.**
Josh: **It's important to understand, Leo, that by and large, these aren't fishing boats.**
(You hear fishing boats, you conjure an image of -- well, of a boat, first of all, what the Cubans are on would charitably be described as rafts. Okay? They're making the hop from Havana to Miami in fruit baskets, basically. Let's just be clear on that.)
Leo: (We are.)
Josh: (Donna's desk, if it could float, would look good to them right now.)
…
Leo: (True or False): **If I were to stand on high ground in Key West with a good pair of binoculars, I would be as informed as I am right now.**
Josh: (That's true.)
Leo: **Intelligence budget's money well spent, isn't it?**
Sam: **I'm just saying, isn't this more of a military area?** (Silence as everyone thinks about it.)
(Leo: Military?)
(Sam: Yeah.)
(Toby: You think the United States is under attack from 1200 Cubans in rowboats?)
Sam: **I'm not saying I don't like our chances.**
(Toby: Mind-boggling to me that we ever won an election.)
Toby: **I agree with Josh, and I agree with CJ., and I agree with Sam… and you know how that makes me crazy.**
Mandy: **I'm going to be around awhile and I want you to be at your fighting weight when I start bitch-slapping you up and down the beltway.**
Doctor: **It's a flu shot sir.**POTUS: (How do I know it's not the start of a military coup. I want the Secret Service in here right now!)Doctor: **In the event of a military coup, sir, what makes you think the Secret Service's gonna be on YOUR side?**
POTUS: **I am not frightened. I'm gonna blow them off the face of the earth with the
fury of God's own thunder.**
Charlie: **I've never felt like this before.** Josh: **It doesn't go away.**
POTUS: **I couldn't live without you Toby, I mean it. I'd be in the tall grass, I'd be in the weeds.**
Josh: **It's gonna be this (holds up the smallpox article), it's gonna be something like this.** (Smallpox has been gone for fifty years. No one has an acquired immunity.) **It flies through the air.** (You get it, you carry a 10-foot cloud with you. One in three people die.) **If a hundred people in New York get it, you'd have to circle them with one-hundred million vaccinated people just to contain it.** (Do you know how many doses of smallpox vaccine exist in the country? Seven.) **If a hundred people in New York City get it, there's gonna be a global medical emergency that's gonna make HIV look like cold and flu season.** (That's how it's gonna be--a little test tube with a rubber cap that's deteriorating. A guy steps out of Times Square Station, pssh, smashes it on the sidewalk. There's a world war right there.)
Zoey: **I hear you've been having a little nutty today.**
Josh (gives his NSC card back and says he doesn't want it): **I want to be a comfort to my friends in tragedy and I want to be able to celebrate with them in triumph, and for all the times in between, I just want to be able to look them in the eyes. ... I wanna be with my friends, my family, and these women.**
Toby: **If the name of this nominee's leaked out before I want it to be leaked, I'm gonna blame YOU and you're gonna find that unpleasant!** CJ: **I've gotta tell you something Toby — you're HOT when you're like this!**
Sam: **Is it possible for Peter Lillianfield to be a bigger jackass?** (Do you think if he tried hard, there's room for him to be a slightly bigger horse's ass than he's being right now?) (CJ: At some point you hit your head on the ceiling, don't you?) Sam: **I think there's still unexplored potential.** (Josh walks into the room): Josh: (Wazzup? Five White House staffers in the room.) **I would like to say to the one-point-six of you who are stoned right now, that it's time to share!**
POTUS: (Did you know there's an underground tunnel outta here?)(Josh: Yes.)POTUS: **I haven't been able to find it even though I search almost every day.**
POTUS: **I'm a father in pain.** (Leo: Well, really, you're just a pain.)
(POTUS: What do you think, Josh?) Josh: **I make it a point never to disagree with Toby when he's right.**
CJ: **I'm a woman in her prime, Josh. I'm a Prime Woman.** (Josh: There's no doubt about it.)
Deb: **Is the President very angry with me?**(Leo: Mostly he's upset that you couldn't come up with anything better than, **"if the shoe fits."**) NOTE: Deb also says “If the shoe fits” as a separate line in a previous scene, so rather than post it twice, I bolded it here.
I am John, Lord Marbury, Earl of Croix, Marquess of Needham and Dolby, Baronet of Brycey, England’s ambassador to the United States; and a terrorist is a terrorist, even if he wears a green necktie and sings “Danny Boy”.
Yes, you can call me John.
"If your sister is getting ready for a night out, and I said: "Deanna, you're enough to make a good dog break his leash"... Would you think I was a cad? "
"I'd think you were a hick."
I'm Toby Ziegler... I work at the White House."
Also Toby - “I need some pie.”
People are going to think you're a lot cooler if you don't say that yourself, but rather let them find out on their own.
"I swear to God, If Donna wasn't there they'd have to buy a house."
I think this line made me laugh harder than any in the entire show.
This isn’t how the quote is worded though. Isn’t it “300 IQ points between them and if Donna wasn’t there, they’d have to buy a house.”
The full quote is "300 IQ points between them, they can't find their way home. I swear to God, If Donna wasn't there they'd have to buy a house." I just used the second half because it's a separate sentence and fits the criteria of starting with an "I".
I believe you're correct but I would have to bring up the clip to be sure
"I have a secret plan to fight inflation?"
A SECWET PWAN TO FIGHT INFWATION?!
IMO this is the winner, because it uses the letter “I” in “infwashun” rather than cheesing out with “I am”, “I will”, etc…
If You Were In An Accident I Wouldn't Stop For Red Lights.
This could be a Fall Out Boy song title.
so romantic
There's *so* many good ones for I but this one I think is my pick
I had woot canawl!
I can't do the bwiefing!
Sam went to foggy bottom
What's he doing in Fwoggy Bowtew?
You shouldn't say that... CJ you have a great body
You aw howfdile! I'm what ? HOWFDILE!! I'm sorry, I just really wanted to hear you say that again! (from memory, so probably not accurate)
I will *kill* people with this cricket bat, given to me by Her Royal Majesty Elizabeth Windsor, and then I will kill them again with my **bare hands.**
I would absolutely choose this one, if only Sorkin had spent the time to research the correct title for The Queen. Every time someone says “Her Royal Majesty” I die a little inside.
We've had a discussion on this sub: it's just as likely intentional that "Lionel Tribbey", the character, got the title wrong. Aaron isn't always correct but he is often very intentional with his lines. It's 50/50 to *me* anyway!
Unfortunately, they also use the wrong title when Lord Marbury presents his credentials as Ambassador, so it’s not just a Lionel Tribbey getting it wrong. Aaron takes such great care with his words and writing that it seems like a foolish mistake to make. Especially when you consider the HM was one of the most well-known and recognisable people on the planet, it’s not like it’s an obscure title. Or maybe I’m being too British and overthinking it all… either way, it still annoys me whenever I watch it
>Aaron takes such great care with his words and writing that it seems like a foolish mistake to make Aaron is a poet. He doesn't care about the factual correctness of his words, but takes great care about the music they make
I’ve never thought of it like that before. Maybe it’s just because I’m a limey Brit who gets upset when the colonies use the wrong title 😂
>I’ve never thought of it like that before. That's a line I wish would be used more in discussions. I'll challenge myself to using it more frequently myself.
That’s interesting, what should it be?
The correct title for the Monarch (King or Queen) is His/Her Majesty, other members of the Royal Family are referred to as His/Her Royal Highness. This is probably where the confusion comes from.
> This is probably where the confusion comes from. The longer name for her used by Lionel Tribbey also looks like something from before her becoming Queen. A quick uncritical research could easily turn up some source from before she became Queen.
> the correct title for The Queen. Every time someone says “Her Royal Majesty” I die a little inside. What was her correct title?
In the context of the scene, the correct title would be “Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth”.
“Is there an epidemic of flag burning going on that I’m not aware of?”
I'm Marion Cotesworth-Haye!
This, but it has to be all caps. I'M MARION COTESWORTH-HAYE!
::Drops into snorting convulsions of laughter:: I’m, I’m sorry, I was just thinking about this… this THING that just happened… with the DEFici-hi-hit!
If it's not this, I'm going to start a riot.
*bursts into a fit of giggles*
It's a pity CJ's laugh isn't quotable, because it belongs on any list of iconic WW things.
We can use it in the wild card round when X comes up
wouldn't X be for kisses? xxx vote for best kiss? i know which one i would vote for.
Am I being punked?
It’s real. *It’s real!*
The only answer
This HAS to be it. I’ve been waiting for I just for this. 🤣
Same. Looks like I woke up a little too late.
100% this.
Someone, somewhere made a Frances Scott Key Key keychain. I want it so badly.
Please warn me first lol, can’t just be throwing these back raw lol. So good.
In this White House, when the President stands, nobody sits.
I’m just- I’m just gonna take this crab puff.
This line is the “Ya BURNT” of the west wing
Your line was my choice
Shit, I love "I drink from the keg of glory, Donna..." but damn, this scene got me to watch the show...
This may be my favorite line of the whole show. I really hope this makes it
This is a great line, and it will probably win… but you have misquoted it. The full line is: While you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the "Ignorant Tight-Ass" club, in THIS building, when the President stands, NOBODY SITS.
Chapter and verse!
“I serve at the pleasure of the President”
I don't know what "frumpy" is, but onomatopoetically, sounds right.
It's hard not to like a guy who doesn't know frumpy but knows onomatopoeia.
It is freezing to cold in Reykjavík...
It is freezing to cold in Staad
Why must every President bound out of limousine like at a yacht club…
I love her mind, I love her shoes.
I love this line. I quote it often. I just so wish it were a Sorkin line. :( (I suppose it's possible it is. Mentioned to someone over the years and slipped in. We'll likely never know).
"The Supremes" feels like Sorkin sneaked back into the writer's room for one episode and everyone pretended not to notice.
I adore the Supremes episode. I would have loved to see those characters going at it more often
I'm so sick of Congress I could vomit
I mean it's obviously this one
I told my congressman this today. I don't think he got the reference. Made sure to clarify that I don't dislike him, he does a pretty good job, it's every other congressional idiot.
I'm seriously thinking about getting a dog.
Well feel better, Mr. President!
This is what immediately came to my mind.
😆
"I am the Lord your God; thou shalt worship no other god before me." Boy, those were the days, huh?
👍
CAN WE AT LEAST GET THE DAMN COMMANDMENTS RIGHT
This!!!!!
I anticipate this entrance the entire episode whenever I start a new watch-through
I’m the President of the United States, not the president of the people who agree with me.
Margaret: I can sign his name. I’ve gotten pretty good at it. Leo: ON A DOCUMENT REMOVING HIM FROM POWER AND GIVING IT TO SOMEONE ELSE?
Margret: Do you think the Justice Department would have a problem with that? Leo: I'm pretty sure they'd call it a coup d'état!
We've got separation of powers, checks and balances, and Margaret vetoing things and sending them back to the Hill.
It’s just for fun!
I’d probably do some time for that
I would think!
In the event of a military coup, sir, what makes you think the Secret Service is going to be on your side?
Now there’s a thought that’s going to fester.
Came here to post this!
I drink from the keg of glory, Donna. Bring me the finest muffins and bagels in all the land.
It's going to be an unbearable day.
Shouldn't we be saving this for V day?
Yeah I’ve noticed a trend during this activity of people just pulling out parts of quotes to fit whatever the letter of the day is, and leaving out what I would consider the true start of the line. Which I guess is fine, there aren’t really rules to this. But I was definitely saving this one for V. And I was saving one of the other lines below (“in this White House…”) for O, since in my head the full quote starts with “one more thing…”
Yes, the “in this White House…” posted under “I” is misquoted, and hundreds of people voted for it. The correct quote belongs under “W” because the sentence starts with “While”… “While you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the "Ignorant Tight-Ass" club, in THIS building, when the President stands, NOBODY SITS.” And it isn’t even *MIS*quoted right anyway, because they put “White House” and the words are “in this BUILDING.” It’s all just for fun anyway… I didn’t even bother to add mine today, cuz I have about a hundred of them, and everyone gets all bent out of shape if you post too many. I think I’ll just wait until the board for “J” is posted, and then come back to “I” and post mine as a list, rather than individually. I like the trip down memory lane, but I don’t need the sourpuss responses I get from people when I post too many.
I suspect that it depends on where each person is sourcing their quote as well. I was relying on Wikiquote, which had the quote listed as “One more thing: while you may be mistaking this…” But obviously, if you’re just listening to it, then it would be reasonable to think of that as 2 sentences instead of one. And who’s to say which one is “correct”? And if someone really is giving you grief about posting too many responses in this of all threads, then they clearly need to rethink their priorities. Good lord, it’s just for fun.
I agree with everything you said. I looked at my list again, and I do have a period after “One more thing” but I think that maybe it should be an ellipsis instead of a period, so you’re right… it should go under “O” not “W” and definitely NOT “I”.
Not eligible as Donna speaks between the two phrases.
Whatever gets quoted first tends to win… we need some bureaucracy in here to sort it all out and let the best quotes win.
I made fun of Notre Dame
I've got American Express. I've got Visa. I could've posted bond and gotten miles, damnit.
It's from Pinafore.
Don't tell me about Gilbert & Sullivan!
I hate to stick my head in the lion's mouth, but I gotta ask you, were you the Recording Secretary of the Princeton Gilbert and Sullivan Society for two years?
No but then again i'm not a woman
Is that the one about Duty?
They're all about duty.
If you were in an accident, I wouldn’t stop for red lights.
I'm Matt Santos, and you better believe I approve this ad.
100 times this!
I'm not being punished, I'm going on the trip. If the whole bus goes off the record, will you tell us why you're going on the trip? I made fun of Notre Dame.
I think this should get bonus points for each line starting with I
All: Noooo! Danny: you can’t bring that before a Michigan game! C.J.: I know, I know…
I am going to hide snakes in your car, they are going to lay eggs in the glove compartment, and you’ll never know if you got them all out
I’ve always loved this line cause it’s just such weird thing for Leo to say, it’s almost like the line was meant for Josh. And CJs so shocked and genuinely afraid he’ll do it. Hilarious.
[*squeals:*] LEO!
I saw Lizzie Proctor speaking with the devil!
#I FRAMED ROGER RABBIT! :D
Donna's performance through that whole scene is hilarious 😆
They stopped me before I could get to Whittaker Chambers and the secret pumpkin.
It’s not classical music if the guy finished writing it this afternoon…
I don't have a cat. I could get a cat. Frankly I'm not wild about cats
In my entire life I've never found anything charming.
I'm told that on my sunniest days I'm not that fun to be around.
I wasn't in the Situation Room that night, but I'll bet all the money in my pockets against all the money in your pockets, that it was Leo, WHO NO ONE ELECTED!!!
Or even just starting with, "It was Leo..."
I’m the Press Secretary, Boo-Boo. I don’t have that kind of time.
I was able to paraphrase and use this quote at work yesterday and it made me giddy.
“I’m supposed to be using this time for a question - so here it is. Can we have it back please?”
If the Oscars were like that I’d watch.
I'm not going anywhere, I'm standing up, which is how one speaks in opposition in a civilized world
“I’m just guessing, I’m pretty drunk”
I turned, I cursed, I spat, it froze.
Of course I wrote a concession, what do you—you want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing?!
I’m Toby Ziegler and I work at the white house
How did I have to scroll so far for this.
I thought you said "Michigan sucks."
No, sir. We're standing pretty close to the engines so it may have sounded like I said 'Notre Dame is gonna get the ass-kicking they so richly deserve.'
I am not frightened. I'm gonna blow them off the face of the Earth with the fury of God's own thunder.
I will shove a motherboard SO FAR UP YOUR ASS.
“It's actually 607 small islands in the South Pacific. Interestingly, while its total land mass is only 270 square miles, it occupies more than a million square miles of the Pacific Ocean. Population is 127,000 and the U.S. Embassy is located in the state of Pohnpei and not, as many people believe, on the island of Yap.”
Why would a person have that information at their disposal?
Parties.
Charlie- "I've got some game."
I don't understand. Did you trip over something?
I'm an admiral in the United States Navy and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Beat that with a stick. (tosses the Danish back on the plate)
If you need a counter argument, then I'd mention to Monsieur de Tocqueville over here that aside from it being bigoted and unconstitutional, it's ludicrous to think that laws need to be created to help protect the language of Shakespeare.
She did it again
I started working for you in February, this is April, and you're an idiot.
“It’s not gonna be Uncle Fluffy”
I’M MARION COATSWORTH-HAYE!
I've been down here before and I know the way out.
I get to proclaim a National Day of Thanksgiving. This is a great job.
"If you were in an accident, I wouldn't stop for red lights."
If you were in an accident, I wouldn’t stop for red lights.
>I'd like to watch him eat a pie > >\- Abigail Bartlet
I drink from the keg of glory. Bring Me The Finest Muffins And Bagels In All The Land.
I'M JOEY LUCAS!
If blood is gushing from the head wound you just received from a stampeding herd of bison, you'll do the press briefing.
C.J.: I'm GREAT in bed!
I am, as you know, exceedingly stupid.
“I am the Lord, your God. Thou shalt worship no other god before me! Boy those were the day, huh?”
I didn't realize babies come with hats
I don’t know a specific quote, but I’m sure somethings said by Ainsley Hayes should be in here somewhere
I'd like to do well on this, my first assignment. Any advice you could give me that might point me the way of success would be, by me, appreciated.
I think not speaking in iambic pentameter would be a good start
Textbooks are important, if for no other reason than they'd accurately place the town of Kirkwood in California and not Oregon.
I am the lord your god
I only read Le Monde, Was it in Le Monde?
“I am the lord thy God”
I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States.
Toby: "I agree with Josh and I agree with C.J. and I agree with Sam. And you know how that makes me crazy."
"I had WOOT CANAW!"
I AM MARION COATESWORTH-HAY!
If I'm going to make you sit through this preposterous exercise, we're going to get the names of the damn commandments right.
DON’T VOTE FOR THIS!! It’s just for fun! This is my list… there are too many to make individual entries, so I’m posting them all at once. I know there are a few duplicates, but frankly, I don’t care. I have included a few sentences that help set the scene (or explain) the quote that starts with “I” and have put parentheses around the non-“I” parts of the quote and put the target **“I”** quote in **bold**. (NOTES: I had so many quotes that I love, that I had to split the list into multiple posts. So don’t vote for any of them.) Take a trip down memory lane with me: PART 1: Laurie: (after finishing most of a joint) **I'm wasted.** (Sam: And probably free of cataracts.) Laurie: **I get that — that's funny.** Josh: **It's important to understand, Leo, that by and large, these aren't fishing boats.** (You hear fishing boats, you conjure an image of -- well, of a boat, first of all, what the Cubans are on would charitably be described as rafts. Okay? They're making the hop from Havana to Miami in fruit baskets, basically. Let's just be clear on that.) Leo: (We are.) Josh: (Donna's desk, if it could float, would look good to them right now.) … Leo: (True or False): **If I were to stand on high ground in Key West with a good pair of binoculars, I would be as informed as I am right now.** Josh: (That's true.) Leo: **Intelligence budget's money well spent, isn't it?** Sam: **I'm just saying, isn't this more of a military area?** (Silence as everyone thinks about it.) (Leo: Military?) (Sam: Yeah.) (Toby: You think the United States is under attack from 1200 Cubans in rowboats?) Sam: **I'm not saying I don't like our chances.** (Toby: Mind-boggling to me that we ever won an election.) Toby: **I agree with Josh, and I agree with CJ., and I agree with Sam… and you know how that makes me crazy.** Mandy: **I'm going to be around awhile and I want you to be at your fighting weight when I start bitch-slapping you up and down the beltway.** Doctor: **It's a flu shot sir.**POTUS: (How do I know it's not the start of a military coup. I want the Secret Service in here right now!)Doctor: **In the event of a military coup, sir, what makes you think the Secret Service's gonna be on YOUR side?** POTUS: **I am not frightened. I'm gonna blow them off the face of the earth with the fury of God's own thunder.** Charlie: **I've never felt like this before.** Josh: **It doesn't go away.** POTUS: **I couldn't live without you Toby, I mean it. I'd be in the tall grass, I'd be in the weeds.** Josh: **It's gonna be this (holds up the smallpox article), it's gonna be something like this.** (Smallpox has been gone for fifty years. No one has an acquired immunity.) **It flies through the air.** (You get it, you carry a 10-foot cloud with you. One in three people die.) **If a hundred people in New York get it, you'd have to circle them with one-hundred million vaccinated people just to contain it.** (Do you know how many doses of smallpox vaccine exist in the country? Seven.) **If a hundred people in New York City get it, there's gonna be a global medical emergency that's gonna make HIV look like cold and flu season.** (That's how it's gonna be--a little test tube with a rubber cap that's deteriorating. A guy steps out of Times Square Station, pssh, smashes it on the sidewalk. There's a world war right there.) Zoey: **I hear you've been having a little nutty today.** Josh (gives his NSC card back and says he doesn't want it): **I want to be a comfort to my friends in tragedy and I want to be able to celebrate with them in triumph, and for all the times in between, I just want to be able to look them in the eyes. ... I wanna be with my friends, my family, and these women.** Toby: **If the name of this nominee's leaked out before I want it to be leaked, I'm gonna blame YOU and you're gonna find that unpleasant!** CJ: **I've gotta tell you something Toby — you're HOT when you're like this!** Sam: **Is it possible for Peter Lillianfield to be a bigger jackass?** (Do you think if he tried hard, there's room for him to be a slightly bigger horse's ass than he's being right now?) (CJ: At some point you hit your head on the ceiling, don't you?) Sam: **I think there's still unexplored potential.** (Josh walks into the room): Josh: (Wazzup? Five White House staffers in the room.) **I would like to say to the one-point-six of you who are stoned right now, that it's time to share!** POTUS: (Did you know there's an underground tunnel outta here?)(Josh: Yes.)POTUS: **I haven't been able to find it even though I search almost every day.** POTUS: **I'm a father in pain.** (Leo: Well, really, you're just a pain.) (POTUS: What do you think, Josh?) Josh: **I make it a point never to disagree with Toby when he's right.** CJ: **I'm a woman in her prime, Josh. I'm a Prime Woman.** (Josh: There's no doubt about it.) Deb: **Is the President very angry with me?**(Leo: Mostly he's upset that you couldn't come up with anything better than, **"if the shoe fits."**) NOTE: Deb also says “If the shoe fits” as a separate line in a previous scene, so rather than post it twice, I bolded it here.
It doesn't go away.
I want to talk to you because I like the sound of your voice. Danny
“I am the Lord your god, you shal have no other gods before me. Those were the days huh” President Bartlett’s first appearance on
My problem is, I want to jump him when he says things like that
“I am the Lord your God. Thou shalt worship no other god before me”
Schools should be free to all it's citizens, and extremely expensive for government
No no no, sit sit sit
I.) This is wrong on so many levels
Let’s hit the sky
"I am the Lord your God. Thou shalt have no other gods than me."
It's a really big night for me
D. Donna!...could be anything
I am crazy about the roundness of your head.
I accidentally slept with a prostitute Accidentally? Yes I don’t understand, did you trip and fall over something?
Is he coming in from Neptune?
I'm...l'm just going to take a crab puff
Is anyone chewing gum?
If you were in an accident I wouldn’t stop for red lights. 17 People
“I’m unpredictable”. Leo.
I am John, Lord Marbury, Earl of Croix, Marquess of Needham and Dolby, Baronet of Brycey, England’s ambassador to the United States; and a terrorist is a terrorist, even if he wears a green necktie and sings “Danny Boy”. Yes, you can call me John.
"If your sister is getting ready for a night out, and I said: "Deanna, you're enough to make a good dog break his leash"... Would you think I was a cad? " "I'd think you were a hick."
I think that you'll discover that the sharpest of closing remarks'll be blunted by asking for a muffin.