Joe quotes from The West Wing

Joe

I know that when life expectancy goes up, that's not victimizing undertakers.

CJ

Well argued, though I do hate you and everything you stand for.

Joe

Claudia Jean, you've only known me for four minutes. Usually it takes people the better part of an hour to hate me and everything I stand for.

CJ

I'm the Press Secretary, Boo-Boo. I don't have that kind of time.

Donna

So, you're our new sawbones.

Joe

A sawbones is a doctor.

Donna

Is it?

Joe

Yeah. Lawyer's a shyster.

Donna

[to Josh] I got him to say it.

Joe

I don't... Josh is a lawyer.

Donna

Well, yeah, I mean he went to law school, but...

Donna

You don't practice law is all I was saying.

Josh

I don't practice law? I help write the laws, I write the laws, I make the laws, I am the law.

Toby

You used to clerk for the Chief Justice. That's interesting.

Joe

Is it? I don't know, I mean if you find it interesting...

Toby

I've just never heard you mention it. Guys around here with two-bit appellate courtships staple it to their foreheads.

Joe

I can't do it, Toby, I'm sorry.

Toby

You haven't even heard what I'm going to say.

Joe

You want me to do the approach, about getting him to resign.

Toby

I didn't say that.

Joe

I can do the math. You've got a limited amount of time to pick the next guy and get him confirmed before the midterms politicize everything. But I work for you. It's a question of propriety.

Toby

I see.

Joe

Do you? The White House can't be seen as pressuring a Supreme Court Justice to change his breakfast order, let alone resign. Separation of powers.

Toby

I see.

Joe

You say that, but in a way that makes me wonder if you really do.

Toby

The President sets the direction of the Court. I've read the Constitution too.

Joe

He sets it when there's a vacancy.

Toby

You don't have to ask him to resign, only to sit down with the President.

Joe

You're talking about a guy who stood up to six Administrations, 22 Congresses, and at one time or another had half the country ready to lynch him. You think a former clerk can pry him lose?