"I'm your guy on this." -Sam
Sam, played by the wonderful Rob Lowe, is the West Wing's Deputy Communications Director. He's young, idealistic, brilliant.... basically, he's pretty close to perfect.
Ten reasons why everyone should love Sam...
10. He's fluent in Spanish
9. He has wonderful debate skills (even though Ainsley whooped him on Capitol Beat)
8. And speaking of Ainsley... He likes a Republican (hooah!)
7. He thinks education is everything (hooah again!)
6. The glasses. Enough said.
5. His best friend is Josh
4. He's willing to stick up for people (ie Ainsley- AISTTC, or CJ- Manchester)
3. He's just so cute when he's clumsy
2. He's an incredible writer
1. Talent, brains, looks.... SAM IS A SEXY MAN!
The best episodes in which to see Sam...
Six Meetings Before Lunch- watch Sam's day of jubilee
Galileo- be in awe of Sam's ability to write speeches on command
And It's Surely To Their Credit- Woo!!!! Sam fires people!!!
The Midterms- LOOK at Sam's face when he says "God Bless America"
Someone's Going To Emergency, Someone's Going To Jail- watch Sam, worship Sam, give Sam a hug
17 People- a beautiful Sam/Ainsley debate in casual attire
Manchester Part Two- Sam in leather. Need I say more?
And now a few Sam quotes...
CJ: What's your Secret Service codename?
Sam: They just changed them.
CJ: I know. What's yours?
Sam: Princeton.
CJ: Mine's Flamingo.
Sam: That's nice.
CJ: No it's not nice.
Sam: The flamingo's a nice-looking bird.
CJ: The flamingo's a ridiculous-looking bird.
Sam: You're not ridiculous-looking.
CJ: I know I'm not ridiculous-looking.
Sam: Any way for me to get out of this conversation?
(In Excelsis Deo)
Sam: It's my day of jubilee
Mallory: I despise you and everything you stand for
Sam: All right, my day was a little better a few seconds ago, but that's all right.
(Six Meetings Before Lunch)
Sam: Good morning. Eleven months ago a 12-hundred pound spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Eighteen hours ago it landed on the planet Mars. You, me, and 60 thousand of your fellow students across the country along with astroscientists and engineers from the Jet Propulsion Lab in Southern California, NASA Houston, and right here, at the White House, are going to be the first to see what it sees, and to chronicle an extraordinary voyage of an unmanned ship called Galileo 5.
(Galileo)
Sam: A small band of pilgrims sought out a place in the New World where they could worship according to their own beliefs... and solve crimes.
Toby: Sam...
Sam: It'd be good.
Toby: Read the thing.
Sam: By day, they churn butter and worship according to their own beliefs and by night, they solve crimes.
Toby: Read the thing.
Sam: Pilgrim detectives.
Toby: Do you see me laughing?
Sam: I think you're laughing on the inside.
Toby: Okay.
Sam: With the big hats.
Toby: Give me the speech.
(Shibboleth)
Sam: It's not just about abortion; it's about the next 20 years. 20's and 30's it was the role of government, 50's and 60's 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 right to be free, what could be more fundamental than that?
(The Short List)
Bartlet: A long flight across the night. You know why late flights are good? Because we cease to be earth bound and burdened with practicality. Ask the impertinent question, talk about the ideas that nobody has thought about yet. Put it another way.
Sam: Be poets.
(The Portland Trip)
Sam: Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. Schools should be palaces. Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense. That is my position. I just haven’t figured out how to do it yet.
(Six Meetings Before Lunch)
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