[to Josh] He's smart enough to take your advice... Bob Russell might be the next President of the United States. You get in now, you can make him the candidate you want him to be. After that we make him the President we need him to be.
“In the Room” · Season 6
In this episode: Josh Lyman (3), Will Bailey (3), Josiah Bartlet (1), C.J. Cregg (1), Leo McGarry (1)
Ever see Arnie Vinick campaign? He'll go into those high school gymnasiums in Iowa and New Hampshire and blow them all away. He'll shake every hand in the joint, kiss every baby, hug every widow on Social Security and sound smarter and more honest than any Republican they've ever seen. Because he is.
[About Bob Russell] He's not stupid.
That's your bumper sticker?
You have to care who's going to sit in that chair after Jed Bartlet is gone.
I do. That's why I don't want Bob Russell to be President.
[woken by his staff, in his cabin on Air Force One] I thought you were gonna let me rest.
I'm so sorry, sir. State just got a heads-up from the IAEA that they're gonna report tomorrow that the South Korean government has admitted to conducting an experiment to enrich uranium. [as C.J. is talking, Bartlet is looking down at his legs and his arm, in some realization] South Korea is not releasing any details. We need you to get on the phone and get the President to come clean. We can't ask China to help stop North Korean nuclear experiments if the South is doing it too. [she picks up a phone] Get us a secure line with the South Korean President.
[softly] C.J....hold it.
Sir?
...I can't move.
[moments later, the President is taken on a stretcher to another part of the plane]
SGSurgeon General Griffith
Progressive paralysis, he had trouble with his hands, now it's both legs and his right arm...
[sarcastically] So much for being staff-dependent in China.
SGSurgeon General Griffith
Fairbanks is closer, but Anchorage is better--
I've got better doctors up here than I do down there.
Mr. President, we can't take the chance--
Let's not pretend we didn't know this was gonna happen.
No, Mr. President, I didn't know...
I mean, we always knew it was gonna happen someday. I'm ready for it, you better be too.
Mr. President, we can't land in China--
[sternly] This plane is going to China. That's a direct order from your Commander-in-Chief.
PJPenn Jillette
What if we burned a flag, not in protest, but in celebration of the very freedoms that allow us to burn a flag - the freedoms that everyone who has ever worked in this magnificent building has pledged to preserve and protect?
[taken aback] Did you go to law school?
PJPenn Jillette
No, clown school.
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