CJ: I can only answer fourteen or fifteen questions at once.
Sam: When I say okay, that's it, close your notebooks. You don't talk like that here, I don't give a damn whose nephew you are. Tony, President Bartlet's not a candidate; he's the President.
Josh: I'd sooner have my family take their clothes off and dance the tarantella on the Truman balcony than go through a campaign with this around my neck.
Toby: Leo got me a lifeboat, I'm going to rip his arms off and beat him…
Leo: Yeah, I got you a lifeboat.
Toby: Did you think there were any circumstances under which I would use it?
Leo: No.
Toby: Then why?
Leo: To show him that.
Jed: Have I displeased you, you feckless thug?
Bartlet: I have MS and I didn't tell anybody.
Mrs. Landingham: Yeah. So, you're having a little bit of a day.
Bartlet: Are you going to make jokes?
Mrs. Landingham: God doesn't make cars crash and you know it. Stop using me as an excuse.
Bartlet: The party's not going to want me to run.
Mrs. Landingham: The party will come back. You'll get them back.
Bartlet: I've got a secret for you Mrs. Landingham, I've never been the most popular guy in the Democratic Party.
Mrs. Landingham: I've got a secret for you, Mr. President: Your father was a prick who couldn't get over the fact that he wasn't as smart as his brothers. Are you in a tough spot? Yes. Do I feel sorry for you? I do not. Why? Because there are people way worse off than you.
Bartlet: Give me numbers.
Mrs. Landingham: I don't know numbers, You give them to me.
Bartlet: How about a child born this minute has a one in five chance of being born into poverty.
Mrs. Landingham: How many Americans don't have health insurance?
Bartlet: Forty-four million.
Mrs. Landingham: What's the number one cause of death for Black men under 35?
Bartlet: Homicide.
Mrs. Landingham: How many Americans are behind bars?
Bartlet: Three million.
Mrs. Landingham: How many Americans are drug addicts?
Bartlet: Five million.
Mrs. Landingham: One in five kids in poverty?
Bartlet: That's thirteen million American children. Three and a half million kids go to schools that are literally falling apart. We need 127 billion in school construction and we need it today.
Mrs. Landingham: To say nothing of 53 people trapped in an embassy. . . . You know if you don't want to run again, I respect that. But if you don't run cause you think it will be too hard or you think you're going to lose, well, God, Jed, I don't even want to know you.
Josh: CJ...
CJ: Listen, I was thinking since it's probably going to be a light day, I'd maybe blow off work, go shopping or something.