Nurse: Do you have any medical conditions?
Bartlet: Well, I've been shot.

Leo: (to Josh in flashback) That's what sons do for old friends of their father's.

Josh: The Democrats aren't going to nominate another liberal, academic, former governor from New England. We're dumb but we're not that dumb.
Leo: Nah, I think we're exactly that dumb.

Toby: I told him that, if asked about it tonight, he should --- if only because it's the easiest thing to remember --- tell the truth.
Campaign member: Do you enjoy losing.
Toby: Not that much, no. But then again I really don't have a lot to compare it to.

Leo: I don't have time to make people comfortable. If a change has to be made it has to be made. (Then he fires the rest of the team.) I want Toby, the rest of you, thanks very much. (Looks towards Toby) Don't screw up!

Leo: Yeah, you know why? Cause you're a crappy politician. I think you'll find I'll be making a lot of decisions on my own so start getting use to it.
Bartlet: You know I got elected to Congress by this state. This state sent me to Congress three times and then elected me governor. All without your help.
Leo: No seriously, that's a real accomplishment considering your family founded this state. . . . Were you even opposed in any of those elections?
Bartlet: You got rid of all the people I know.
Leo: Yeah, have a good night.
Bartlet: Why are you doing this? You're a player. You're bigger in the party than I am. Hoynes would make you national chairman. Leo, tell me this isn't one of the twelve steps.
Leo: That's what it is. Right after admitting that we're powerless over alcohol and that a higher power can restore us to sanity. That's where you come in. . . . Because I'm tired of it: year after year after year after year having to choose between the lesser of who cares. Of trying to get myself excited about a candidate who can speak in complete sentences. Of setting the bar so low, I can hardly bear to look at it. They say a good man can't get elected President. I don't believe that. Do you?

Leo: Act as if ye have faith and faith shall be given to you. Put it another way, fake it till you make it.

Abby: Dr. Lee?
Dr Lee: Dr. Bartlet, I hope they told you that it's looking very good.
Abby: There are 14 people in the world who know this, including the Vice President, the Chief of Staff, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. You're going to be the fifteenth. Seven years ago my husband was diagnosed with a relapsing, remitting course of MS. When all this is over, tell the press, don't tell the press, it's entirely up to you.