He was okay with it?
He thinks it's a great idea. He can't wait to meet you.
Lionel Tribbey.
Yeah.
Lionel Tribbey thinks hiring me was a great idea.
Why are you surprised?
Well, because I am a Republican and Lionel Tribbey is... incredibly not.
Lionel Tribbey is the White House Counsel. He's a brilliant and fair-minded attorney, and he will accept you on his staff because he is... well, fair-minded and because...
You haven't told him yet!
I have, in fact, not told him yet, no.
So you lied to me just then.
I'm a politician, Ainsley. Of course I lied to you just then.
More from this episode
All quotes from this episode →More The West Wing quotes · These quotes come from Wikiquote's The West Wing pages and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.