Exactly what I asked you not to do.
You went and saw Sam's friend?
Why did you have us tailed?
On the off chance that you're as stupid as you look. Whose idea was this?
It was mine. Sam was a reluctant accomplice. You had us tailed?
She didn't give us anything.
It's not what we do, Josh.
That may be true, but still...
You should apologize to that girl for even asking.
Like I'm not gonna have enough problems without the Keystone Cops.
Is that supposed to mean something to me?
What, the country isn't open Christmas Eve?
I'll take the Indian ambassador in the Oval Office.
And then if you could just ask the Secret Service to step in and kill me, please.
It's what I do now; I'm a professional hostile witness.
Oh, I'm sorry, dear. Would you like a cookie?
[on Marbury] You're really gonna let him loose in the White House, where there's liquor and women?
We can hide the women. But the man deserves a drink.
Thank you for coming. How was your flight?
[to Leo] Allow me to present myself...Lord John Marbury, I was summoned by your President.
Yes. We've met, 10 or 12 times. I'm Leo McGarry.
I thought you were the butler.
No, I'm the White House Chief of Staff.
Nonetheless, would you have something with which to light my cigarette?
No, I'm afraid we don't allow smoking in this part of the world.
Really? In this part over here we encourage it!
There's an India expert I want to bring in.
[Bartlet looks at him pointedly.]
You guys are gonna love him.
Lord John Marbury, former ambassador to New Delhi from the Court of Saint James.
A psychiatric institution.
You're really gonna let him loose in the White House, where there's liquor and women?
We can hide the women. But the man deserves a drink.
I was warned that coming to talk to you might be insulting to your professionalism.
Well, you wouldn't want to do that.
I wasn't ready for the press yet.
Could've told me that before sending me in there.
I flatly denied it. I said I was in the Oval Office ten minutes ago and nothing's going on.
They don't think you lied to them.
I know that. They think you lied to me, which is what happened. They don't know me. I'm from nowhere. I was just starting to get credible. I was just starting to get their respect. You know how long it's going to take me to get it back?
Don't ask C.J.; she doesn't know anything.
There is a concern that you're too friendly with the press.
We know it's important that you have a friendly relationship with them...
It's important for all of us.
Does this have to do with Danny Concannon?
People see you with Danny.
This is one time, and if we erred, it's on the side of trying to...
You sent me in there uninformed so that I'd lie to the press.
We sent you in there uninformed because we thought there was a chance you couldn't.
Mr. President, I was wondering if I could ask you a question.
I was wondering how you would feel about my going out on a date with Zoey.
Well, Zoey was talking to me before, and she mentioned that if I had a free night...
My daughter asked you out?
I should've locked her in the dungeon.
I don't think you've got one, sir.
Say, listen. My hesitation about your going out with Zoey before, you know, it's not 'cause you're black.
I thought it was 'cause I'm a guy.
Still, I want you to go out with her if that's what you both want to do.
Just remember these two things: She's nineteen years old, and the 82nd Airborne works for me.
I was watching a television program before, with a kind of roving moderator who spoke to a seated panel of young women who were having some sort of problem with their boyfriends - apparently, because the boyfriends had all slept with the girlfriends' mothers. And they brought the boyfriends out, and they fought, right there on television. Toby, tell me: these people don't vote, do they?
We meant 'stronger' here, right?
I'm proud to report our country's stranger than it was a year ago?
So if the Capitol building blows up, the man my country will be looking to is the Secretary of Agriculture?
Yeah, but you'll be dead.
Which is why I really don't care that much.
[Cutting Donna off] Donna, I really don't anticipate the Capitol building exploding.
What percentage of things exploding have been anticipated?
Now you're bringing me down.
[re: soap opera] I don't understand. Don't any of these characters have jobs?
I don't know, Mr. President. I think one of them is a surgeon.
They seem to have a lot of free time in the middle of the day.
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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