Nancy McNally quotes from The West Wing

C.J.

They beat women, Nancy. They hate women. The only reason they keep Qumari women alive is to make more Qumari men.

Nancy

So what do you want me to do about it?

C.J.

How about instead of suggesting that we sell the guns to them, suggesting that we shoot the guns at them? And by the way, not to change the subject, but how are we supposed to have any moral credibility when we talk about gun control and making sure that guns don't get in the hands of the wrong people? God, Nancy! What the hell are we defining as the right people?

Nancy

This is the real world, and we can't isolate our enemies.

C.J.

I know about the real world, and I'm not suggesting we isolate them.

Nancy

You're suggesting we eliminate them.

C.J.

I have a briefing.

Nancy

You're suggesting that...

C.J.

I'm not suggesting anything. I don't suggest foreign policy around here.

Nancy

You are right now.

C.J.

It's the twenty-first century, Nancy. The world's gotten smaller. I don't know how we can tolerate this kind of suffering anymore, particularly when all it does is continue the cycle of anti-American hatred. But that's not the point, either.

Nancy

What's the point?

C.J.

The point is that apartheid was an Easthampton clambake compared to what we laughingly refer to as the life these women lead. And if we had sold M1-A1s to South Africa fifteen years ago, you'd have set the building on fire. Thank God we never needed to refuel in Johannesburg!

Nancy

[nods] It's a big world, C.J. And everybody has guns, and I'm doing the best I can.

C.J.

[in tears] They're beating the women, Nancy!

C.J.

So, the 4-H convention.

Toby

We're not going.

C.J.

I don't get it. How can you not want to see the butter cow?

Toby

I'm that way.

C.J.

You understand it's a life-size cow made entirely of butter.

Toby

We're not going.

C.J.

There's also a butter Elvis and a butter Last Supper which has, I swear to God, Toby...

Toby

Butter on the table?

C.J.

It's got butter on the table right there between butter James and butter Peter, an almost mind-blowing vortex of art and material that dares the viewer to recall Marcel Duchamp.

Toby

How do they keep it from melting?

C.J.

How, indeed.

Nancy

Toby, you have a phone call in the staff cabin.

Toby

Thank you.

C.J.

Butter, butter, butter, butter, butter, butter, butter.

McNally

Leo. Yeoman Fitzwallace.

Dr. McNally.

McNally

Let's attack.

Who?

McNally

Qumar. Let's recommend to the President that we attack.

Leo

Why?

McNally

'Cause I've had it.

I don't think the UN is going to let us do it for that reason.

McNally

That's 'cause you're a sissy. You want peace in the Middle East? Give me a pair of third generation ICBM's and a compass. You get B-2 Spirit stealth bombers over Qumar right now as if the Qumari Air Defense Sytem requires stealth capability. Just fly in at night, and while you're at it, could you order the USS Louisiana to fire off a D-5 Trident just to see if it works? What's the worst that could happen?

[to Leo, bewildered] Is she talking to me?

McNally

Yes!

Well, 98% of all living organisms within a seven mile radius would die instantly in a torrent of fire.

McNally

Admiral Sissymary... We're running out of options on the menu.

McNally

Sir, given the volatility of the region, a secret test would be how Iran would certainly proceed.

Bartlet

All right, let's put our cards on the table. What helped keep the Cold War cold was a sense of moral restraint that these weapons were too terrible to use.

Leo

That restraint won't exist in jihadists who strap bombs to their chests and enter nightclubs.

There are moderate elements on the ascendancy in Iran.

Toby

"In the Koran, God commanded to kill the wicked and those who do not see the rights of the oppressed and to murder them. If we abide by the Koran, all of us should mobilize to kill." Televised address by President Alijani: Moderate.