I'm just going to change my shirt.
You look bad. You're tired. You slept in the office. It's Friday. Go home.
Why?
Because I think you're putting too much faith in the magical powers of a new shirt.
“Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail” · Season 2
In this episode: Toby Ziegler (3), Sam Seaborn (2), Josh Lyman (1), C.J. Cregg (1), Leo McGarry (1), Donna Moss (1)
No cameras.
You negotiated that?
Yes.
They agreed to it?
You want to make out with me right now, don't you?
Well, when don't I?
You want the benefits of free trade? Food is cheaper.
PPolicewoman
Yes.
Food is cheaper! Clothes are cheaper, steel is cheaper, cars are cheaper ... Phone service is cheaper! You feel me building a rhythm here? That's because I'm a speech writer and I know how to make a point.
PPolicewoman
Toby.
It lowers prices, and it raises income. You see what I did with 'lowers' and 'raises' there? It's called the science of listener attention. We did repetition, we did floating opposites, and now you end with the one that's not like the others. Ready? Free trade stops wars. And that's it. Free trade stops wars, and we figure out how to fix the rest. One world, one peace... I'm sure I've seen that on a sign somewhere.
So, now you have two choices - meeting with an unruly mob or meeting with lunatic mapmakers.
Or getting paid a lot more money working almost anywhere else I want.
[After Sam learns the identity of a deceased Communist spy] It was people pushing paper around fifty years ago. Why does it matter?
It was high treason, and it mattered a great deal! This country is an idea, and one that's lit the world for two centuries and treason against that idea is not just a crime against the living! This ground holds the graves of people who died for it, who gave what Lincoln called the last full measure of devotion, of fidelity.
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