Excuse me. I'm so sorry to interrupt in what obviously is a private moment between the two of you and your... two friends. We came in this morning...
G2Girl 2
We know who you are. We're not rednecks.
Okay. Well, I'm Donna Moss and this is my boss.
Anyway, we're very crunched for time and we think that you...
I work at the White House.
G1Girl 1
Wow. Humongous whoop.
Come on! He's Communications Director. It's a decent sized whoop.
G2Girl 2
How many unborn babies did you guys kill today?
Whoa, hey. Danger, Will Robinson. Tyler, no fooling around. We've got 15 minutes to get to a plane that is 3 miles from here. That plane-- I swear to God-- is taking off at 1:00.
TTyler
It's taking off at 1:00?
KKiki
Are you guys stupid or something? It's 1:45 right now.
KKiki
No, not here it's not.
TTyler
See, we crossed over from Unionville to Dearborn County which doesn't observe Daylight saving time.
KKiki
I think it's the other way around, genius.
TTyler
What did I ever do to you?
It says on the schedule, "All times are local." This is why I couldn't get anyone on their cell.
Wait. Wait. No. No. You're not... We changed time zones? We changed time... We changed time zones?!
TTyler
It's a-a common mistake.
Not for the U.S. government!
What kind of schmuck-ass system could this possibly...
That's good! That's perfect!
How did...? I don't understand.
Perfect. Just the break I'm looking for.
What do...? What do...? People, they just... They reset their watches when they commute?
I can't take working here.
They just change their watches every time they cross a time zone? What is this, a joke?!
Okay, this is a whole new thing now. My guys are going to need to walk this off a bit before they can regroup. Kiki, you and your friends get back to school. Tyler, you and I are going to come up with a plan to get us to a commercial airport.
...restoring abundance amid an economic shortfall, securing peace in a time of global conflict, sustaining hope in this winter of anxiety and fear. More than any time in recent history, America's destiny is not of our own choosing. We did not seek nor did we provoke an assault on our freedom and our way of life. We did not expect nor did we invite a confrontation with evil. Yet the true measure of a people's strength is how they rise to master that moment when it does arrive. Forty-four people were killed a couple of hours ago at Kennison State University. Three swimmers from the men's team were killed and two others are in critical condition, when, after having heard the explosion from their practice facility, they ran into the fire to help get people out. Ran into the fire. The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight. They're our students and our teachers and our parents and our friends. The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels, but every time we think we have measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we're reminded that that capacity may well be limitless. This is a time for American heroes. We will do what is hard. We will achieve what is great. This is a time for American heroes and we reach for the stars. God bless their memory, God bless you and God bless the United States of America. Thank you.
You have an inadvertent habit of putting down my Judaism by implying that you have a sharper anti-Semitism meter than I do.
You know, the ancient Hebrews had a word for Jews from Westport: they pronounced it "Presbyterian."
And by saying things like that.
I'm just saying, I'm from Brighton Beach.
Well, Mohammed al Mohammed el Mohammed bin Bizir doesn't make the distinction when he suits up in the morning.
Well, as long as you have a good grasp of the complexity of that situation.
What the hell are the two of you talking about?
I assure you neither one of us knows.
Qumar. Let's recommend to the President that we attack.
I don't think the UN is going to let us do it for that reason.
That's 'cause you're a sissy. You want peace in the Middle East? Give me a pair of third generation ICBM's and a compass. You get B-2 Spirit stealth bombers over Qumar right now as if the Qumari Air Defense Sytem requires stealth capability. Just fly in at night, and while you're at it, could you order the USS Louisiana to fire off a D-5 Trident just to see if it works? What's the worst that could happen?
[to Leo, bewildered] Is she talking to me?
Well, 98% of all living organisms within a seven mile radius would die instantly in a torrent of fire.
Admiral Sissymary... We're running out of options on the menu.
Campaigns aren't about the candidates.
They're about the voters. How-how are we going to create jobs? how-how are we going to get healthcare? How are we going to make the lights go on? How are we going to protect ourselves?
Don't you want to ask if the plumber knows which directions the pipes run? Don't you...? Forget the plumber. Don't... [sighs]... we want leadership to sound and feel like, instead of appealing to our-our least expensive, however legitimate, desire to feel good about ourselves? Don't we want...?
All right, that's it. I can't take it.
I am not kidding. I have such an impulse to knock your heads together. I can't remember the last time I heard you two talk about anything other than how a campaign was playing in Washington. Cathy needed to take a second job so her dad could be covered by her insurance. She tried to tell you how bad things were for family farmers. You told her we already lost Indiana. You made fun of the fair but you didn't see they have livestock exhibitions and give prizes for the biggest tomato and the best heirloom apple. They're proud of what they grow. Eight modes of transportation, the kindness of six strangers, random conversations with twelve more, and nobody brought up Bartlet versus Ritchie but you. I'm writing letters, on your behalf to the parents of the kids who were killed today. Can I have the table, please?
[Josh and Toby stand]
MKMatt Kelley
Flight's delayed?
MKMatt Kelley
Me, too. I'm going to St. Louis.
MKMatt Kelley
I'm with my daughter. She's up, uh, stairs in the room, but we were out here looking at Notre Dame.
MKMatt Kelley
You got kids?
MKMatt Kelley
Wait till you take your oldest to look at colleges. It's an incredible feeling. You wish they'd go to college across the street from your house, but you know...
Yeah. [to the bartender] A Jack Daniels, rocks.
My boss went to Notre Dame.
MKMatt Kelley
Beautiful campus. I've never seen anything like it. She-she's not going to get to sleep tonight. [pause] You see what happened in the market today?
Yeah, I-I saw. You invested?
MKMatt Kelley
Ehh... Mutual fund that's supposed to send her to college. I never imagined at $55,000 a year, I'd have trouble making ends meet. And my wife brings in another 25. My son's in public school. It's no good. I mean, there's 37 kids in the class, uh, no art and music, no advanced placement classes. Other kids, their mother has to make them practice the piano. You can't pull my son away from the piano. He needs teachers. I spend half the day thinking about what happens if I slip and fall down on my own front porch, you know? It should be hard. I like that it's hard. Putting your daughter through college, that's-that's a man's job. A man's accomplishment. But it should be a little easier. Just a little easier. 'Cause in that difference is... everything. [pause] I'm sorry. I'm, uh, I-I'm Matt Kelley.
I'm Toby Ziegler. I work at the White House. Have a minute to talk? We'd, uh... like to buy you a beer.
Listen, I know we're here for a serious purpose, for a sober purpose, but I wanted to say I've never been a part of a street gang before, and that's basically what we are – a pretty well-financed one – but anyway, I wanted to say it feels good, and I think when we're done with this meeting, I think we should go out and get girls, and I don't know, maybe knock over a fruit stand or something.
At my last job, the background check wasn't nearly as extensive...
You have a button on your phone, a crash button.
You have a crash button which will bring the Secret Service in instantly and turn your office into a live microphone which will be broadcast all over the building. It's the button you push if someone's trying to take the Oval Office. This isn't your last job.
...'Joy cometh in the morning,' scripture tells us. I hope so. I don't know if life would be worth living if it didn't. And I don't yet know who set off the bomb at Kennison State. I don't know if it's one person or ten, and I don't know what they want. All I know for sure, all I know for certain, is that they weren't born wanting to do this. There's evil in the world, there'll always be, and we can't do anything about that. But there's violence in our schools, too much mayhem in our culture, and we can do something about that. There's not enough character, discipline, and depth in our classrooms; there aren't enough teachers in our classrooms. There isn't nearly enough, not nearly enough, not nearly enough money in our classrooms, and we can do something about that. We're not doing nearly enough, not nearly enough to teach our children well, and we can do better, and we must do better, and we will do better, and we will start this moment today! They weren't born wanting to do this.
All I meant by 'cloak and dagger' is that I'm not cut out for the security meetings and the secret this and the back channel ambassadors. It's like you're in the Mafia.
Well, it may be like I'm in the Mafia, but I'm not. I work for the good guys.
It was one sentence. The problem was that you were never at the other end of the phone.
That's an entirely different kettle of beans and we can have that discussion, but history has shown if you just wait and tell it to a divorce lawyer you can have half of my stuff.
You don't know; some of it's good stuff.
[to Sam] Would you tell him he doesn't have to worry about the district court?
I told him. [to Bruno] They're not going to rule for Sullivan.
He's worried 'cause it's Wengland.
I'll tell you, I'm not that comfortable with a federal judge being even a little bit crazy.
