3.11 100,000 Airplanes JOSH: Amy. AMY: Are you talking to me? JOSH: Yes. AMY: What did I say about that? JOSH: You said not to talk to you. AMY: But you’re doing it anyway. JOSH: Yes I am. AMY: You’re doing it again. JOSH: Listen- AMY: You’re still doing it. JOSH: Amy- AMY: I’m walking away now. JOSH: Lisa. LISA: Josh. JOSH: Still tryin’ to get waved into Generation X? LISA: Still a pompous jackass? JOSH: Oh-ho, you betcha! TOBY: He’s required to give Congress information on the state of the union, if he buys Congress a subscription to the Wall Street Journal, he’s fulfilled his requirements. SAM: Whatever happened to rule #1 of staff profiles being that we don’t do staff profiles? CJ: When did we have that rule? SAM: We should have that rule. SAM: Ed, Larry, this is Lisa Sherborn from Vanity Fair. LISA: Which one’s Ed, which one’s Larry? LARRY&ED: Doesn’t matter. JOSH: What’s the problem? DONNA: Well, let’s set aside the fact that there’s no sub-part B, the rest of it’s in a grammatical structure with which I’m not familiar. JOSH: Just pay for it on my credit card. DONNA: See, that’s what I think this is designed to do, it’s designed to break a person’s spirit. JOSH: And dammit that’s my job. DONNA: We’re getting beat by the system! JOSH: We *are* the system. DONNA: We suck. JOSH: Yes! DONNA: How many words in the Gettysburg Address? TOBY: 266. DONNA: And in the 10 Commandments? TOBY: 173. DONNA: So you really wouldn’t think there’d need to be 6000 to discover how a plane ticket gets reimbursed. JOSH: (To LARRY and ED) Do the two of you ever go anywhere separately? LARRY: It’s weird, isn’t it? JOSH: Little weird, yeah. TOBY: I’m just the guy who does the thing. JOSH: What? TOBY: They’ve run out of pie. POTUS: Sam.  Why do you think I shouldn’t do it? SAM:  I think you should.  I think ambition is good.  I think overreaching is good.  I think giving people a vision of government that’s more than social security checks and debt reduction is good.  I think government should be optimistic. DONNA: So many women.  So little charm. JOSH: What in God’s name could you possible want right now? CJ: Sam, Sam, the Sunshine Man – get on the couch I’m gonna do you right now. SAM: Okay. CJ: Sorry, I was still talkin’ to Carol. SAM: Anyway.  Congratulations.  And if you’re serious about that thing with Carol I could just stand in a corner and not even say a- CJ: Get out. SAM: CJ asked me a couple of weeks ago if the reason we didn’t get married is that then your name would’ve been Lisa Sherborne-Seaborn. LISA: That’s exactly why we didn’t get married. SAM: Why didn’t we get married? LISA: Why do you think? SAM: Because I don’t know what the cool restaurant is and I don’t’ care – when I’m hungry I want to eat.  I don’t know where the Tommy Hilfiger party is and I don’t know what to do once I get there- LISA: You’re full of crap. SAM: I was never cool enough for you. LISA: You’re full of crap and you think too little of me and I didn’t leave you, you left me…To do this.  And the reason you’re pissy is cause I’m here looking at you and writing about you and you’re thinking I’m wondering if you’ve been doing anything at all. SAM: Often it’s not clear to me whether or not I have. SAM: (Reading his speech on curing cancer)  “Over the past 50 years we’ve split the atom, we’ve spliced the gene, and we’ve rounded the tranquility base.  We’ve reached for the stars and never have we been closer to having them in our grasp.  New science, new technology is making the difference between life and death and so we need a national commitment equal to this moment of opportunity.  And so I announce to you tonight that I will bring the full forces of the federal government and the full reach of this office to one fundamental goal: We will cure cancer in by the end of this decade.”