We're gonna do 'good cop, bad cop.'
No, we're really not.
Why not?
'Cause this isn't an episode of Hawaii Five-O. How about you be the good cop and I be the cop that doesn't go to the meeting?
“The White House Pro-Am” · Season 1
In this episode: Josh Lyman (3), Toby Ziegler (3), Josiah Bartlet (2), Danny Concannon (2), Leo McGarry (1), Charlie Young (1), Abbey Bartlet (1), Mrs. Landingham (1)
Try to find out who those friends of my wife's are in the wire piece and take them out back and have them shot. Can I do that?
Yeah.
Yeah, Leo says I can do that.
You're concerned about American labor and manufacturing.
CCongressman
Yeah.
What kind of car do you drive?
CCongressman
Toyota.
Then shut up.
...
What would you have done if he had said he drove an American car?
Found some other way of humiliating him.
This, right here, this is the reason why you have a reputation as a pain in the ass.
I've cultivated that reputation.
I'm not used to having members of the print media in here.
I'll try not to get ink on the furniture.
Aw, Danny, and I was just about to offer you a cookie.
And now?
No.
I saw you guys are going to the opening on Friday.
No.
No?
Security.
Is Zoey bothered?
You know, Danny, I don't mind talking, but I say it here and 10 million people read about tomorrow.
Thanks for the boost in my circulation but I'm actually off the record up here.
[looks down] It's not going to work.
What's not going to work?
You know what I'm talking about.
You and Zoey?
Yeah.
Why?
[angry] Look, I do what I do...I go where I go. If it's a problem for the Secret Service that I'm black...
Whoa....
...then that's the way it is. But she shouldn't expect candy and flowers, you know what I mean?
I know what you're saying. But I don't think the problem is you're black. I think the problem is you're stupid.
Well, thanks, Danny. You picked me right up.
You bet. Listen, the Hardy Boys in the letters they're talking about, they may be heavily armed but I wouldn't put a lot of money on their marksmanship. One of these days they're gonna miss her and hit me. Two thousand marriage proposals, 2,000 death threats, a dozen bodyguards. Everyone wants to get close. Everyone wants a thing. Plus, and I say this standing fifteen feet from the Oval Office, life with father couldn't have been a real company picnic, you know. If it was me, just for now, I'd make sure I was the one guy in her life who was hassle free. That's just me.
Okay. So just ease up on the high ground.
BBartlet
On that point I concede the high ground.
And I concede I was wrong about the thing.
BBartlet
Good.
However...
BBartlet
No. No "however". Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong and get used to it.
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