Toby: Is the electricity back on?
CJ: No.
Toby: Then what's he doing there?
CJ: Hoping the electricity goes on.
Toby: Well, that ought to do it.

Donna: Can I tell you something about women?
Josh: Oh God, please don't.
Donna: We like to be wooed. . . .She wants you to ask her out, Josh. . . You're missing the signs. . . . I know a thing or two about the ways of love.
Josh: No, you don't.

Josh: All last night at the phone banks, Donna was telling me I should ask Joey Lucas out. . . . What do you make of Donna being the one pushing it?
Sam: I don't make anything.
Josh: You wouldn't think she'd be jealous?
Sam: She goes out with guys are you jealous?
Josh: No. . . . I don't get jealous. . . I don't like it and usually do everything in my considerable capabilities to sabotage it. . . . Which is why it's curious that Donna would do nothing to discourage and in fact do everything to encourage a date with Joey Lucas who is quite frankly a very attractive woman.
Sam: Josh?
Josh: Yeah.
Sam: You do know that your voice got really high their right?
Josh: Yeah.

Bartlet: I inherited the war on drugs from a President who inherited it from a President who inherited it from a President before that. I'm not a hundred percent sure who we're fighting but I know we're not winning. Ten years ago we spent five billion dollars fighting drugs and we did such a good job that last year we spent 16 billion. Sixty percent of federal prisoners are in jail on drug charges as opposed to two and a half percent that are there for violent crime. We imprison a higher percentage of our citizens than Russia did under Communism and South Africa did under apartheid. Somewhere between 50 and 85% of the prison population has a drug or alcohol abuse problem. We've tried 'Just Say No', I don't think it's going to work.

Abby: Because you've got to focus on Colombia.
Bartlet: I can do two things at once.
Abby: You don't have two things at once; you have 92 things at once and one of them is five hostages in Colombia. . . . and you should focus.
Bartlet: What are you, my Zen master?

Bartlet: You've really got to ask yourself what's the point in being a superpower any more.

Joey: If you polled a hundred Donna's and asked them if they think we should go out, you'd get a high positive response. But the poll wouldn't tell you that it's because she likes you and she knows it's beginning to show and she needs to cover herself with misdirection.

Leo: What are you doing? It's freezing out here.
Bartlet: I'm not allowed to smoke inside anymore.
Leo: I thought you were allowed to do pretty much whatever you want.
Bartlet: Up to the point where you accidentally burn holes in priceless antiques.
Leo: You should quit smoking.
Bartlet: Why?
Leo: You'll live longer.
Bartlet: I smoke two cigarettes a day.
Leo: It's a bad example.
Bartlet: For who? Russian spy satellites? George Bernard Shaw said 'you don't live longer it just seems longer'.
Leo: I'm not sure it was Shaw.
Bartlet: I'm not sure it was either.

CJ: How ya doing, Ainsley?
Ainsley: My mouth is dry, my hands are moist and I have to pee.
CJ: Okay.

Bartlet: You're packing already?
Abby: Yep.
Bartlet: You're not leaving until tonight right?
Abby: Yeah.
Bartlet: Men and women are completely different in this regard.
Abby: When was the last time you packed a suitcase at all?
Bartlet: I don't know.