Thank you for coming. How was your flight?
MarburyIntoxicating.
Marbury
[to Leo] Allow me to present myself...Lord John Marbury, I was summoned by your President.
Yes. We've met, 10 or 12 times. I'm Leo McGarry.
Marbury
I thought you were the butler.
No, I'm the White House Chief of Staff.
Marbury
Nonetheless, would you have something with which to light my cigarette?
No, I'm afraid we don't allow smoking in this part of the world.
Marbury
Really? In this part over here we encourage it!
What have you got for me, John?
Lord John Marbury
Well, um, after speaking at length this past week with your secretaries of state and defense, as well as your joint chiefs and various embassy officials, I believe this. Buy them off.
Lord John Marbury
Yes, sir.
Lord John Marbury
Mr. President, for several centuries, my kingdom has ruled India with a stick and carrot. When we had a particular problem with someone, one solution we would try is to make him a maharaja. That's kind of a regional king. We would pay him off with an annual tribute, and in return, he would be loyal to the crown.
Lord Marbury, under our Constitution, our President is not empowered to create maharajas.
Lord John Marbury
Yes. Thank you for clearing that up, Leo. Having been educated at Cambridge and the Sorbonne, I am, as you know, exceedingly stupid.
Lord John Marbury
You've been paying the world off since the industrial age. Foreign aid, during the Cold War was you paying dictators to be on your side. To this very day, you pay Korea not to develop nuclear weapons.
Lord John Marbury
A computer industry, and for that, they require an infrastructure, and that is what you can give them.
Lord John Marbury
It's the price you pay.
For avoiding a war halfway around the world?
Lord John Marbury
For being rich, free and alive all at the same time, and for the criminally negligent behavior of your Congress in not checking the proliferation of nuclear devices.
Where are you on the missile shield?
Lord John Marbury
Well, I think it's dangerous, illegal...fiscally irresponsible, technologically unsound, and a threat to all people everywhere.
I think the world invented a nuclear weapon. I think the world owes it to itself to see if it can't invent something to make it irrelevant.
Lord John Marbury
Well that's the right sentiment, certainly a credible one from a man who's fought in a war. You think you can make it stop? Well, you can't. We build a shield and somebody will build a better missile.
Well, it's a discussion for serious men. They say a statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years. I'd like us to be statesmen while we're still alive.
Lord John Marbury
Abigail.
BBartlet
Now it's a party.
Lord John Marbury
Your breasts are magnificent.
Oh. Um... thank you, John.
Lord John Marbury
May I inquire, Mr. President – the first thing that attracted you to Abigail - was it her magnificent breasts?
BBartlet
You know John, there are places in the world where it might be considered rude to talk about the physical attributes of another man's wife.
Lord John Marbury
My god. Really?
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