Quotation Marks – The West Wing edition

Season Four

“I think you’re getting back together.” — Sam
“We’re not.” — Toby
“But you want to.” — Sam
“Yes.” — Toby
“I think… Wait. What?” — Sam
“See, sometimes if I slam on the brakes, you run right past.” — Toby
“Okay, fill us in on everything you’ve got so far between the two of you.” — Josh
“Yeah, that’s what’s going to happen right now.” — Toby

“Now, he’s going to throw a big word at you: “unfunded mandate.” He’s going to say if Washington lets the states do it, it’s an unfunded mandate. But what he doesn’t like is the federal government losing power. But I call it the ingenuity of the American people.” — Ritchie
“President Bartlet, you have 60 seconds for a question and an answer.” — Moderator
“Well, first of all, let’s clear up a couple of things. “Unfunded mandate” is two words, not one big word.” — Bartlet

“Call and response isn’t going to work in front of a Joint Session. You’re alliteration happy: ‘guardians of gridlock,’ ‘protectors of privilege.’ I needed an avalanche of Advil. And when you use pop-culture references, your speech has a shelf life of twelve minutes. You don’t mind constructive criticism, do you?” — Toby
“No, sir.” — Will
“Anyway, thanks for coming in. I told Sam I can do this by myself.” — Toby
“Well, maybe he thought that your speeches were obscurantist policy tracts lost in a cul-de-sac of their own internal self-righteousness and groaning from the weight of statistics. I’m just speculating. I can’t say for sure.” — Will

“I didn’t realize babies come with hats.” — Toby

Season Five

“Sell me.” — Toby
“We had agreed to a one percent cut on a thirty-day continuing resolution, but the Speaker pulled a bait-and-switch.” — CJ
“One percent, two percent … what’s so unreasonable about three percent?” — Toby
“Three percent equals X dollars, which is Y flu vaccinations, Z school lunches … It’s more convincing with numbers.” — CJ

“My generation never got the future it was promised… Thirty-five years later, cars, air travel is exactly the same. We don’t even have the Concorde anymore. Technology stopped.” — Leo
“The personal computer…” — Josh
“A more efficient delivery system for gossip and pornography? Where’s my jet pack, my colonies on the Moon?” — Leo

“I’m sorry but can we really justify spending $800,000 on ‘A Bio-Cultural Approach to the Study of Female Sexual Fantasy and Genital Arousal’?” — Leo
“How can we afford not to?” — Toby

Season Six

“[to Margaret] You’re an odd woman and I’ve never quite understood you. But you are extremely capable and you run this office like a Swiss watch. And you’re tall, which is reassuring. Leo may need you and if he does, that’s okay. But if he’s willing to part with you, I hope you’ll stay.” — CJ

“[Bob Russell is] not stupid.” — Will
“That’s your bumper sticker?” — Josh

“[about a potential VP candidate] Do you want me to get the President to lean on him?” — Leo
“He told me that he’d kick the guy’s ass all over the school yard, if it came to that.” — Josh
“Who is it?” — Leo
“You.” — Josh

Season Seven

“Who were you talking to?” — Babish
“My attorney’s voice mail.” — Toby
“My instructions were that you sit quietly.” — Lawyer
“I’m pretty sure I used my indoor voice.” — Toby

“Get some rest. I need you to look pretty for 20 million TV viewers.” — Josh
“If that’s what we’re counting on, the campaign is doomed.” — Leo (In the brilliant John Spencer’s final episode)

“Nobody ever talked Leo into doing anything he didn’t want to do. And he’d want you upstairs [in the campaign suite], not down here. You belong up there, it’s your night. He was so proud of you, Josh.” — Donna

“This guy is the real deal.” — Josh
“You said that last time.” — Sam [about Bartlet]
“Yeah, and look how right I was.” — Josh

“Good morning Mr. President.” — Debbie
“Morning.” — Bartlet
“How are you feeling this morning?” — Debbie
“Unemployed.” — Bartlet
“A lot of that going around the building.” — Debbie

Those were some of my favorites … Which ones did I miss?

Clacked by Ivey West
on Sep 28, 2009 @ 09:00 EST5EDT