Amy Gardner quotes from The West Wing

Josh

How am I not supposed to call you a hypocrite when you say that the government shouldn't tell women what to do with their bodies?

Amy

Exercise some self control, I guess. Prostitution is about the subjugation of women by men for profit.

Josh

But the profit goes to the women.

Amy

In some cases. But I know of no little girl, and neither do you, who says "I want to be a prostitute when I grow up."

Abbey

Amy.

Amy

Yes, ma'am?

Abbey

CJ and I are gonna get drunk. Come on.

Amy

Yes, ma'am.

Josh

You're going?

Amy

The First Lady just asked me to get boozy with her. You don't think I want to write a book one day?

C.J.

We think you should run.

Sam

Why? Why would you think something like that?

C.J.

Well, it was Josh's idea.

Josh

Actually, it was Amy's.

Sam

Why?

Amy

Well, I picked a trifecta with the California 47th, the sheriff's race in Arizona and the Tulsa Family Court.

Sam

Well, can I just give you the money and not...

Amy

I also think you'd be a home run choice. You're going to raise a lot of money. I'm going to help you and I have a hunch the President, who just won a landslide, will be making some visits as well. You'll be the best funded Democrat ever run in 47. You're not going to win, so you can't lose.

Josh

I think you'd energize the state party. We're not going to let you look like a fool. We won't allow it.

Sam

[to Toby] What do you think?

Toby

I don't think you should do it. Energizing the state party's good. A well-funded airing of the issues is good. So is mollifying House Democrats, but you have to ask yourself, is it worth it? You're going to lose. A Democrat's always loses in the 47th. Can't just pick up and try someplace else. They have a name for that.

Sam

I don't know. I don't know. I worked in a state assembly race in Manhattan, in a district where Democrats outnumbered Republicans sixteen to one. But everywhere we went, there'd be one lone poster of a right-wing nutbar who wanted to eliminate the income tax. And he was holding up signs an canvassing everywhere and bugging the local reporters until we had to comment on it. So I introduced myself to his campaign manager and I said 'What are you doing? Your candidate doesn't have a chance. Neither do your issues.' He said 'This is what I believe. And no candidate gets to run in my district without speaking to my issues.' I came this close to voting for him. So... I don't know about what you just said.

Toby

Then I think you should win.

Abbey

How did you live with Josh Lyman?

Amy

I'm sorry?

Abbey

How did you live with him? He beat Max out of the 12 million earmarked for vaccine education. And when I said I wanted the 12 million he said "So did I. And at the end of a prize-fight, you look at the guy who's dancing around and that's who won"? So I wanna know how you lived with him.

Amy

We never technically lived together which was the subject of many–

Abbey

Don't you wanna kill him when he says things like that?

Amy

My problem is I wanna jump him when he says things like that.

Abbey

Where'd you get your mouth?

Amy

Brown, then Yale Law School.

Amy

Am I being hazed? Is this a hazing? 'Cause I'll go along and everything, but I have to see Josh...

Will

It's not a hazing. They don't do that. [feels in his pocket] Except... yes, you put olives in my jacket again.

CJ

I did, I did do that. But this is on the level.

Josh

You look great.

Amy

Thanks, so do you.

Josh

Everyone looks great in a tux; chimps look great.

Amy

With none actually present I'll have to settle for you.

Josh

So listen, umm, Ryan of all people asked me straight out about our relationship, and I couldn't have avoided the subject more if I had faked a stroke.

Amy

Cheeky little brat.

Josh

That's not the point, even if I'd wanted to answer him, I wouldn't have known what to say. It's like what C.J. said today about the economy; by refusing to put language to it we're trying to pretend it doesn't exist, but it's something... even if we don't know what to call it. I just think it's time to start thinking about a language plan for whatever it is we're doing too.