Charlie!
Yes, sir.
Can I have a couple of aspirin or a weapon of some kind to kill people with?
“The Lame Duck Congress” · Season 2
In this episode: Josiah Bartlet (2), Sam Seaborn (2), Ainsley Hayes (2), Josh Lyman (1), Toby Ziegler (1), Leo McGarry (1), Charlie Young (1), Donna Moss (1)
Even when they're here in session, getting a hundred senators in line is still like trying to get cats to walk in a parade.
I don't need your help. I'm asking for your help so let's not make a federal...
[into her phone] Dad, it's me. Sam's asking for my help.
Put the phone down.
[into her phone] Gotta go, dad, I need to help Sam.
That must have rolled them in the aisles back in Georgia.
I'm from North Carolina.
Wherever it was you studied baton twirling.
That'd be Harvard Law School.
So, I'm being used.
Yes.
As a dupe.
Yes.
How am I supposed to feel about that?
How do you usually feel about that?
My value here is that I have no value.
You have enormous value to me. You have absolutely no value to Eastern Europe.
Why's a test-ban treaty so important? Let me tell you. In 1974, India set off a peaceful nuclear explosion. Indira Gandhi herself said they had no intention of building a bomb, they just wanted to know that they could. Twenty years later India sets off five nuclear explosions. Who gets nervous? Pakistan. And when Pakistan gets nervous, everybody get nervous. You know why? 'Cause we're all gonna die.
I'm not going to say anything. I'm not going to spill anything. I'm not going to get Republican juice on you. I'm just going to sit there and learn.
Look...
From the master, Sam, I want to learn from the master.
[stopping] See, women think that kind of thing works, but it doesn't.
[steps close] It really does, Sam.
[Sam looks at her. They start walking again.]
I let you come to the Hill, you'll summarize my memo?
I'll use punctuation and everything. You might even get extra credit.
You know we forget sometimes, in all the talk about democracy we forget it's not a democracy, it's a republic. People don't make the decisions, they choose the people who make the decisions. Could they do a better job choosing? Yeah. But when you consider the alternative...
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