The West Wing Quotes

Quotes from Proly One of best Written drama for TV anywhere in the world.

Sam : There are lots of hungry people in the world, Mall, and none of them are hungry because we went to the moon. None of them are colder and certainly none of them are dumber because we went to the moon.
Mallory: And we went to the moon. Do we really have to go to Mars?
Sam : Yes.
Mallory : Why?
Sam : Because it's next. Because we came out of the cave, and we looked over the hill and we saw fire; and we crossed the ocean and we pioneered the west, and we took to the sky. The history of man is on a timeline of explorations and this is What's next.

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C.J. Cregg: Twenty-five years ago half of all 18 to 24 year olds voted. Today it's 25%. 18 to 24 year olds represent 33% of the population but only account for 7% of the voters. Think government isn't about you? How many of you have student loans to pay? How many have credit card debt? How many want clean air and clean water and civil liberties? How many want jobs? How many want kids? How many want their kids to go to good schools and walk on safe streets? Decisions are made by those who show up. You gotta rock the vote!

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Here s another one of my fav

Toby( white house communication director) on guncontrol regulations:

"If you combine the populations of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Australia, you'll get a population roughly the size of the United States. We had 32,000 gun deaths last year. They had 112. Do you think it's because Americans are more homicidal by nature? Or do you think it's because those guys have gun control laws?"

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Leo McGarry: We spent millions of dollars developing a pen that could write in space. Do you know what the Russians did?
Josh Lyman: Used a pencil?
Leo McGarry: Used a pencil.

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[after Josh's therapy session with Stanley Keworth, Josh inquires why Leo is trying to help him]
Leo : This guy's walking down the street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep he can't get out. A doctor passes by, and the guy shouts up, "Hey, you, can you help me out?" The doctor writes a prescription, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a priest comes along, and the guy shouts up, "Father, I'm down in this hole. Can you help me out?" The priest writes a prayer, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a friend walks by. "Hey, Joe, it's me. Can you help me Out" And the friend jumps in the hole. Our guy says, "Are you nuts? Now we're both down here." The friend says, "Yeah, but I've been down here before - and I know the way out."

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Sam: I think you should. I think ambition is good. I think overreaching is good. I think giving people a vision of government that's more than Social Security checks and debt reduction is good. I think government should be optimistic.

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Will: It's a campaign of ideas.
Sam: The candidate died.
Will: But not the ideas. The metaphor alone knocks me down.

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Jed: I don't want to make the same mistakes over again.

Leo: Not when there are so many new ones we can make.

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One of my most fav

Josh: "You went over my head! You went behind my back!"
Amy: "Quite the contortionist am I."

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Ginger: What do they eat in Helsinki?
Sam: They eat moose.
Ginger: You ate a moose?
Sam: No, I don't like eating things where the cartoon character can talk and, you know, hatch a plan.

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"The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have the protection of it."

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Al: "Toby, you're smiling."
Toby: "I just figured out who you were."
Al: "He's gonna say Satan."
Toby: "No, you're the guy who runs into the Seven-Eleven to get Satan a pack of cigarettes."

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On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying
their taxes. -Molly Ivins

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Another one of my fav

Bartlet: Can I tell you what's messed up about James Bond?
Charlie: Nothing.
Bartlet: Shaken not stirred will get you cold water with a dash of gin and dry vermouth.
The reason you stir it with a special spoon is so not to chip the ice.
James is ordering a weak martini and being snooty about it.

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Well, not speaking in iambic pentameter might be a step in the right direction.

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Josh: "I really think I'm the best judge of what I mean, you paranoid Berkeley shiksa feminista!" (beat) "Well, that was way too far."
CJ: "No, no. Well, I've got a staff meeting to go to and so do you, you elitist Harvard fascist missed-the-dean's-list-two-semesters-in-a-row Yankee jack-a..!"
Josh: Feel better gettin' that off your chest there, CJ?
CJ: I'm a whole new woman.

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neverrrr.. watched that.... n cudnt understand much of this convo. Embarassed

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wat the... is this??

n then u complain that ur threads dnt get any replies..

Any one ..if by chance want to know wat this 'west wing ' is all abt.... seems like its smthing reallly v. popular n serious Wink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Wing.
..... bt may b i m the only dumb here... Embarassed

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Its the best damn thing ever written! Read and pay attention!

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Joshua "I want to be a comfort to my friends in tragedy and I want to laugh with them in triumph, and in between, i just want to be able to look them in the eye."

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Bartlet : "You know what we're starting with tonight?"
Josh : "No, sir."
Bartlet : "Hot pumpkin soup with cheese gnocchi and a chévre brioche."
Josh : "Was anything you just said food?"

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Admiral Percy Fitzwallace: Claudia Jean.
C.J. Cregg: Sailor...

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Donna: "Actually, Josh, when I said I was assigned to you?"
Josh: "Yeah?"
Donna: "I may have been overstating it a little."

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Josh: " I don't understand All i did was get up in the morning"

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President Josiah Bartlet: Sweden has a 100% literacy rate. 100%! How do they do that?
Leo McGarry: Maybe they don't and they can't add.

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