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The West Wing · Season 1

Bartlet and Toby in “He Shall, from Time to Time...”

What's on your mind?

The era of big government is over.

You want to cut the line?

I want to change the sentiment. [pause] We're running away from ourselves and I know we can score points that way, I was a principal architect of that campaign strategy right along with you, Josh. But we're here now, tomorrow night we do an immense thing; we have to say what we feel, that government, no matter what its failures in the past and in times to come for that matter, government can be a place where people come together and where no one gets left behind. No one...gets left behind. An instrument of good.

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