Abbey Bartlet quotes from The West Wing

Abbey

You think this is your fault? It's not.

He's my best friend. I'm not the kind of person who has best friends.

Abbey

Because your life is your work, and so is his; your work.

What are you trying to say?

Abbey

You chose this; both of you. You're running a country, for God's sake, not a tree house.

Well, Leo stays in the tree house if he wants to. We'll work around his recovery; half-days, whatever it takes.

Abbey

He's not going to work half days. He's not going to work around his recovery. He's not going to do whatever it takes.

That's his decision.

Abbey

And we know what that decision is going to be.

So I should wake him up and fire him again? Because it worked so well the first time?

Abbey

Let's talk about this time. You've got to keep him out of that job. He'll kill himself for you if you don't.

Abbey

[about the Democratic convention] What are they doing?

Eating their young.... It's a free-for-all. I think Aaron Burr's got 20 votes.

Abbey

You're not performing at the ceremony.

I wasn't asked to.

CJ

Sir, I'm sorry to interrupt--

Abbey

No, that's quite all right. He was about to go into his Spencer Tracy routine.

Abbey

So, rumor has it you're going to have a chat with the groom tomorrow morning.

I am.

Abbey

Well, that will be lovely, I'm sure!

What? I did it with Doug!

Abbey

Yeah. I don't recall that as being an unqualified success.

Well, now I've had a run of it.

Abbey

You do know that talking him out of marrying your daughter is not an option.

Yeah. [pause] You really think it's not an option?

Abbey

Jed, what are you thinking about?

Tomorrow.