If I'd wanted to exercise, I'd have never become an economist.
“Faith Based Initiative” · Season 6
In this episode: Josiah Bartlet (2), Toby Ziegler (2), Josh Lyman (1), Matt Santos (1)
Is upholding the sanctity of marriage our job? I raised my right hand and swore an oath to uphold the Constitution.
SWSen. Wilkinson
Where was your left hand, Mr. President?
[to Josh, about leaving to run Santos' campaign] You can't leave. We're not done here.... You're going to walk into the Oval Office and tell the President you just found a better horse?
What are you going to do when this is done?
Whatever I can to stave off the chaos, mayhem and self-interest that lies just beneath our civil disguise.
So, not the private sector?
The money would have to be unbelievable.
I wanted to start this journey in the place where it all started for me. Soon, we will be inundated by the polls, the punditry, and prognostications, all the nonsense that goes with our national political campaigns. Well, none of that matters. This is the place that matters. Because everyday, children walk in to this schoolhouse to glimpse their futures, to ask for hope. They may not know they need it yet, but they do. And I'm here to tell you that hope is real. In a life of trials, in the world of challenges, hope is real. In a country where families go without health care, where some go without food, some don't even have a home to speak of, hope is real. In a time of global chaos and instability where our faiths collide, as often as our weapons, hope is real. Hope is what gives us the courage to take on our greatest challenges, to move forward together. We live in cynical times, I know that. But hope is not up for debate. There is such a thing as false science, there is such a thing as false promises, I am sure I will have my share of false starts. But there is no such thing as false hope. There is only hope.
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