100,000 Airplanes (3.11)

  • Bartlet: A President stood up. He said we will land a man on the moon before the end of the decade. You know what we knew when he said that? Nothing. We didn't know anything. We didn't know about the lunar surface. We didn't know how to land one of these things. All we'd ever done is crash it into the ocean. And God knows we could figure out how to land soft. We didn't know how to blast off again, but a President said we're gonna do it, and we did it. So I ask you, why shouldn't I stand up and say we are going to cure cancer in ten years? I'm really asking.
  • Josh: Well, how close are we to really being able to do this?
  • Bartlet: Nobody knows.
  • Josh: Then -
  • Bartlet: Toby?
  • Toby: It'll be seen as a political ploy.
  • Bartet: Why?
  • CJ: It can be seen - excuse me - it can be seen as self-serving.
  • Bartlet: How?
  • CJ: Using cancer to deflect attention from MS.
  • Bartlet: You think people with cancer care what my motives are? You think their families do?
  • CJ: I'm saying -
  • Bartlet: Joey?
  • Joey: I agree with everything that's been said, except, I don't think they'll see it as deflecting the MS. I think they'll see it as deflecting the censure.
  • Bartlet: Once again, why would somebody...?
  • Joey: Everybody cares about motive, Mr. President.
  • Bartlet: I didn't -
  • Kenny: She said, "Everybody cares about motive," sir.
  • Bartlet: Sam?
  • Sam: Yes sir?
  • Bartlet: Why shouldn't I do it?
  • 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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Death to Pennies

Did you know it costs the U.S. Mint about 1.8 cents to make one penny? This snappy YouTube video from C. G. P. Grey explains why pennies are bad for the economy and should be discontinued. What do you think?

SAM SEABORNNNNNNN

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I will always reblog this moment, in all its forms. Always.

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The Portland Trip (2.7)

  • Sam: Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place. We should be talking about not being satisfied with past solutions, we should be talking about a permanent revolution.
  • Toby: Where have I heard that?
  • Sam: Permanent revolution?
  • Toby: Yeah.
  • Sam: I got it from a book.
  • Toby: What book?
  • Sam: The Little Red Book.
  • Toby: You think we should quote Mao Tse-Tung?
  • Sam: We do need a permanent revolution.
  • Toby: Still, I think we'll stay away from quoting Communists.
  • Sam: You think a Communist never wrote an elegant phrase?
  • Toby: Sam.
  • Sam: How do you think they got everybody to be Communists?

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College Kids (4.3)

  • Bartlet: And Article 51 of the United Nations charter says every nation has a right to wage war to defend itself.
  • Jordon: The article's incumbent on wars being declared.
  • Bartlet: Wars don't work like that anymore.
  • Jordon: Laws work like that.
  • Bartlet: 44 people are dead in Iowa, and most them college kids. Shareef has murdered Americans in uniform. He's murdered Americans out of uniform. He was trying to blow up the Golden Gate Bridge, and I didn't have time to file an amicus brief.
  • Jordon: How can justice that has to be served in secret be justice?

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To watch Allison Janney receive her lines for the first time, sitting in the makeup chair, then grab a coffee, walk onto the set, and deliver a vintage C.J. Cregg press briefing was a thing of beauty all actors should have a chance to witness.
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Five Votes Down (1.4)

  • Sam: You know, Toby, you could afford to buy one of those now if you want.
  • Toby: There is literally no one in the world that I don’t hate right now.

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Six Meetings Before Lunch (1.18)

  • Mallory: Sam.
  • Sam: It's my day of jubilee!
  • Mallory: I despise you and everything you stand for.
  • Sam: All right, the day was a little bit better a few seconds ago, but that's all right.
  • Mallory: How could you write that position paper?
  • Sam: Which position paper?
  • Mallory: Don't play dumb with me.
  • Sam: No, honestly, I am dumb. Most of the time I'm playing smart.

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Internal Displacement (7.11)

  • Danny: We're both about to fall off a cliff. And I don't know what I'm gonna do with the rest of my life, except I know what I don't wanna do. And on Inauguration Day, you're going to be released from that glorious prison on Pennsylvania Avenue, with -
  • CJ: No human skills?
  • Danny: Seems to me.
  • CJ: I should punch you in the face.
  • Danny: That's what I'm talking about.
  • CJ: Keep going -
  • Danny: So, if I'm gonna jump off the cliff, and you're gonna get pushed off the cliff, why don't we hold hands on the way down?

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