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Martin Sheen Quotes

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“The streets of heavens are too crowded with angels. But every time we think we've measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we're reminded that that capacity may well be limitless. This is a time for American heroes.”
— Jed Bartlet, The West Wing, Season 4: 20 Hours in America
Tagged: Angels, Streets, Heaven, American Heros, Death
“Bartlet: I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.

Jacobs: I don't say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does.

Bartlet: Yes, it does. Leviticus.

Jacobs: 18:22.

Bartlet: Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I have you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7 ... What would a good price for her be?”
— Jed Bartlet, The West Wing, Season 2: The Midterms
Tagged: abomination, Homosexuality, Bible, Application, rebuttle
“ I find these Cabinet meetings to be a fairly mind-numbing experience, but Leo assures me they are Constitutionally required.”
— Jed Bartlet, The West Wing, Season 1: Enemies
Tagged: cabinet meetings, mind-numbing, Constitution, required
“To be a good soldier you must love the army. To be a good commander you must be able to order the death of the thing you love.”
— Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg
Tagged: Best Military Movies, Soldier, commander
“Bartlet: We meant 'stronger' here, right?

Sam: What does it say?

Bartlet: I'm proud to report our country's stranger than it was a year ago?

Sam: That's a typo.

Bartlet: Could go either way.”
— Jed Bartlet, The West Wing, Season 1: He Shall, from Time to Time
Tagged: Stronger, Typo, Stranger, country, either way
“What will be the next thing that challenges us, Toby? That makes us go farther and work harder? You know that when smallpox was eradicated, it was considered the single greatest humanitarian achievement of this century? Surely we can do it again, as we did in the time when our eyes looked towards the heavens, and with outstretched fingers we touched the face of God.”
— Jed Bartlet, The West Wing, Season 1: The Crackpots and These Women
Tagged: Challenges, smallpox, Achievement, Century, Heavens
“It was not a space ship from another planet, just another time — a long since abandoned Soviet satellite. One of its booster rockets didn't fire and it couldn't escape Earth's orbit. A sad reminder of the time when two powerful nations challenged each other and then boldly raced into outer space. What will be the next thing that challenges us, Toby? That makes us go farther and work harder? You know that when smallpox was eradicated, it was considered the single greatest humanitarian achievement of this century? Surely we can do it again, as we did in the time when our eyes looked towards the heavens, and with outstretched fingers we touched the face of God.”
— President Josiah Bartlet, The West Wing, Season 1: The Crackpots and These Women
Tagged: Space, space race, UFO, The West Wing, Bartlet Speeches
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