Seriously, Toby, you put me in that office and everyone who works on the speech-writing staff is gonna resent me.
Don't be ridiculous. It's a West Wing office. Everyone who works in the White House is gonna resent you.
S4Holy Night
My dad's going to love him.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I love him, so my father will love him.
That's absolutely the way it works.
So I have to ask you and I'm nervous, but I'd like Jean Paul to come stay with us in Manchester this Christmas.
BBartlet
Zoey, I think it's really sweet that you still come to me for permission. You're classy and you're old-fashioned.
So it's okay?
BBartlet
Not in a million years.
[to Will] Listen, when you get home tonight you're going to be confronted by the instinct to drink alone. Trust that instinct. Manage the pain. Don't try to be a hero.
Danny thinks w-we somehow got a Gulfstream to land in Bermuda, assassinated Shareef, then disassembled the plane and distributed the pieces throughout the Bermuda Triangle?
Yeah.
I think he spent too much time in the Africa hot.
The thing is...
Yeah?
I'm absolutely certain that's what happened.
S4Guns Not Butter
It's the curse of every daughter's father.
Boyfriends?
I don't like them, I don't like them at all.
Yes, I know sir.
What the hell happened with you two? It was perfect. I just kept you in the office all the time.
Well, she was unhappy that I was at the office all the time.
That was the point. If I was trying to make her happy, I'd buy her a Cabriolet.
I like your sass.
You've got a very nice sass yourself... sir.
What, are you touring?
I could.
Mr. McGarry, Mr. Ziegler, Mr. Lyman, Miss Cregg. It's the Temptations! I love you guys!
You only think you've heard everything, but you haven't.
Hit me.
Toby.
James Hoebuck will vote yea ten-thirty if we give him $115,000.
Million?
Thousand. $115,000.
For an RV? What's he want?
An NIH study on remote prayer.
I like it. There should be a button on my desk I can press and forty-nine people instantly pray for me.
We cut farm assistance in Colombia. Every single crop we developed was replaced with cocaine. We cut aid for primary education in northwest Pakistan and Egypt; the kids went to madrassahs. Why weren't you making a case that Republican senators are bad on drugs, and bad on national security? Why are Democrats always so bumfuzzled? By the way, sixty-five more flight schools today. Maisy hasn't found your guy. Don't worry. There are thousands more.
You know something there, General Tso? If you had a story, you'd write it. If you don't have one, shut up. We just lost a vote. We're not bumfuzzled. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to cancel a photo op with a goat.
You took funding for remote prayer to the President?
I did it with gusto.
That's 'cause you don't know the story of Fishhooks McCarty.
Is this a real person or a Donna person?
Corrupt politician on the Lower East Side in the '20s. Every morning he stopped at the St. James Church on Oliver Street and said the same prayer, "O Lord, give me health and strength. We'll steal the rest."
Not that there needs to be, but... was there a point?
You've got health and strength, both of which, coincidentally, I prayed for after hot lead was shot into your body.
Yeah... You're going to need some Kryptonite, by the way.
Okay, settle down.
All right.
So you've got health and strength.
And we'll steal the rest?
Bet your ass.
All right. Good work tonight.
S4The Long Goodbye
[on the phone] No, I didn't mean that you have no social skills, Toby... I'm sorry if you think I was being insensitive to your... I think you're very... you're a very pretty girl, Toby.
Dad... you... cannot expect me to silently do nothing. You're going to require care.
TTal
I wasn't built for it. You came for the prom, not for this.
Reunion. I'm not going.
TTal
Coward. That world, the expertise, the solicitude, no. No, thanks. I want to go down with some silence, with my music, with some grace.
I'll quit and take care of you.
TTal
'We sail,' said Pascal, 'in a vast sphere,' Claudia Jean, 'ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.' I'd much rather see you on TV, darling, than sitting opposite me, watching a demolition derby going on in my brain.
My name is C.J. Cregg. As you know, I work for the President of the United States. This is why I was asked to make a short speech for our reunion. It's a terrible subject, a terrible idea: The Promise of a Generation. So bad I was going to start off with a joke and fill the whole thing in with more jokes. But I find the topic has gotten under my skin while I wasn't paying attention because every generation has promise and every generation fails that promise in some respects. How can we not? What is promise if not something that's impossible to live up to? My boss had to recently make his case to the American people that he was worth reelecting and it was not an easy process - nor should it be. And in its wake, I've been thinking a lot about civility, civic duty and kindness, and how pervasive and powerful they are. How enduringly pervasive those qualities are in American life and how I see them all around me day after day. America's a terribly difficult idea filled with promise and impossible to live up to. Promise is inchoate and promise is what binds us. Some of us died, some got sick, some got rich, some had bad luck, some of us were fortunate, more than others. But failed promise only truly fails when it leads to lowered expectation.
S4Inauguration, Part I
I have a problem.
Well, you're about to propose the most massive shift in foreign policy since the Marshall Plan and it's going to be wildly unpopular.
All right: two problems.
BBryce
This President can't write himself a blank check when it comes to foreign policy. Especially this President.
'Especially this President?'
BBryce
Yes.
Because of the clause in Article 1 that says not every President gets the full powers of Commander-in-Chief?
BBryce
Are you re-writing the section [of the speech]?
Yes.
BBryce
Dramatically?
Well, I like to think that I have a certain flair...
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