It occurs to me, I never said I'm sorry. I am. For the lawyers, for the press, for the mess, for the fear. Bruno, Doug, Connie -- these guys are good. They want to win. So do we. The only thing we want more is to be right. I wonder if you can't do both. There's a new book... and we're going to write it.
“Manchester, Part II” · Season 3
In this episode: Josiah Bartlet (3), Bruno Gianelli (2), Josh Lyman (1), Sam Seaborn (1), Abbey Bartlet (1)
I've been thinking it might not be such a bad idea to lock you all in here and set the place on fire. We have 48 hours before we kick off this campaign. We will work hard, we will work well, and we will work together. Or so help me, mother of God, I will stick a pitchfork so far up your asses you will quite simply be dead.
CConnie
I was trying to find a Starbucks. A guy in a gas station said, "Round here, people don't pay four bucks for a cup of coffee."
New Hampshire. Live free or cheap.
[to C.J. about his original election] I was never supposed to win. Then you guys came along and all of a sudden...
BBartlet
Did you know that hardly any of the guys who landed on the moon are married to the same people they were married to before they went there?
What?
BBartlet
I'm just saying, it could have been worse: I could have been an astronaut.
You could not have been an astronaut.
BBartlet
I would have been a great astronaut.
You're afraid of heights, speed, fire, and small enclosed spaces.
BBartlet
I'd have overcome it to go to the moon.
I know you would have. [pause] There's something important I have to say. I haven't really made up my mind yet, but at the moment, I'm leaning towards voting for you.
You were the one who sent them the press releases, right?
What press releases?
Subcommittee. About tobacco.
Yes, I was.
Well, that was stupid.
You think?
No, I know.
I got two years as legislative director in the House, two years as floor director in the Senate, and thirty months as Deputy Chief of Staff. What do you got?
Josh...
Kalmbach's a fat-ass Rotarian gasbag. I knew once I sent the thing he'd raise the profile and give us the press we needed.
Kalmbach is vulnerable in his home state. He's got an influx of tech and other clean industries along his Route Nine corridor, along with the suburban voters that go with it - affluent parents who don't want their kids smoking.
We got the money, Bruno.
You don't want the money. You want the issue. You should have waited until the fall when the bell rings and then we hammer them with it. Then Kalmbach, Leder, Ross, Roark, Steve - whoever gets the nomination - has it hanging around their necks they're nicotine pushers. [beat] Plus, you get the money. [long pause] The sooner you get I know what I'm talking about, and I'm on your side, the sooner your world gets better. Of course, you got the money. I'm amazed they didn't send it to you with candy and a stripper. Pennsylvania. Michigan. Ohio. Three swing states you could have brought over with that. That's an election.
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