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“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
“Now if our tactics seem less than civilized it’s because so are our attackers.”
— Josh Lyman, The West Wing, Season 1: In Excelsis Deo
Tagged: Tactics, civilized, attackers
“It's not just about abortion, it's about the next 20 years. Twenties and Thirties it was the role of government, Fifties and Sixties it was civil rights. The next two decades it's gonna be privacy. I'm talking about the Internet. I'm talking about cell phones. I'm talking about health records and who's gay and who's not. And moreover, in a country born on the will to be free, what could be more fundamental than this?”
— Sam Seaborn, The West Wing, Season 1: The Short List
Tagged: Abortion, role of government, Civil Rights, Internet, Privacy, health records, Homosexuality, Freedom
“ 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
“There's two things in the world you never want to let people see how you make 'em: laws and sausages.”
— Leo McGarry, The West Wing, Season 1: Five Votes Down
Tagged: see, People, Product, Law, sausages
“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
“So, my friend, if you want to start using American military strength as the arm of the Lord, you can do that. We're the only superpower left.”
— Leo McGarry, The West Wing, Season 1: A Proportional Response
Tagged: American, Military, strength, Lord, superpower
“I drink from the keg of glory, Donna. Bring me the finest muffins and bagels in all the land.”
— Josh Lyman, The West Wing, Season 1: Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
Tagged: Drink, Keg, glory, muffins, Bagels, gloating
“About a week ago I accidentally slept with a prostitute.”
— Sam Seaborn, The West Wing, Season 1: Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
Tagged: accidentally, Sex, Prostitute, mistake
“Flight Attendant: Sir, I'm going to have to ask that you turn off your cellular phone.

Toby: We're flying in a Lockheed Eagle Series L-1011. Came off the line ten months ago. Carries a Sim-5 transponder tracking system. And you're telling me I can still flummox this thing with something I bought at Radio Shack?”
— Toby Ziegler, The West Wing, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: cell phone, Airplane, Sassy, Radio Shack, flummox
“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
“The military wasn't designed to be a unit of social change. Problem with that is, that's what they were saying about me 50 years ago. Blacks shouldn't serve with whites. It would disrupt the unit. You know what? It did disrupt the unit. The unit got over it.”
— Percy Fitzwallace, The West Wing, Season 1: Let Bartlet Be Bartlet
Tagged: Military, unit, Social Change
“I drank and took drugs because I'm a drug addict and an alcoholic. I'm not cured. You don't get cured. I haven't had a drink or a pill in six and a half years — which isn't to say I won't have one tomorrow.”
— Leo McGarry, The West Wing, Season 1: Take out the Trash Day
Tagged: drank, Drugs, Alcoholic, not cured
“We all need some therapy, because someone 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.”
— Bruno Gianelli, The West Wing, Season 3: Gone Quiet
Tagged: therapy, Liberal, Crime, Soft, defense, Tax
“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
“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 was shot last night while surrounded by the best-trained armed guards in the history of the world.”
— C.J. Cregg, The West Wing, Season 2: In the Shadow of Two Gunmen
Tagged: crimes, Victims, Guns, armed guards, History, World
“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
“You know, I realize that as an adult not everyone shares my view of the world, and with an issue as hot as gun control I'm prepared to accept a lot of different points of view as being perfectly valid, but we can all get together on the grenade launcher, right?”
— Josh Lyman, The West Wing, Season 1: Five Votes Down
Tagged: Guns, West Wing, Josh Lyman, Legislation
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