Quotes from In Excelsis Deo
C.J.: Donnie, would you tell them I'm on my way over to see the president?
Donnie: Flamingo's on her way.
C.J.: Wait, what did you...? What did you call me?
Donna: I want to learn how to ski.
Josh: Why?
Donna: I like the equipment.
Josh: Okay.
C.J.: The president is scheduled to leave for New Hampshire tomorrow morning at 10am, on the dot, no hold-ups, no delays, which means he ought to be leaving around noon.
Mandy: This might seem trivial under the circumstances.
Toby: What?
Mandy: The Santa hats do clash with the Dickensian costumes.
Toby: It might seem trivial?
Josh: Could you stop looking at me with the face...?
Donna: It's my face.
Josh: ...like I just killed your hamster?
Bartlet: You! What's your name?
Jeffrey: Jeffrey Lucas.
Bartlet: And when are you gonna get taller, huh? What are you, fifteen, sixteen years old?
Jeffrey: I'm seven.
Bartlet: All right, then you're fine. All right, let's go. Come on, I'm a busy man. I am, after all, the president of Bulgaria.
C.J.: What's your secret service code name?
Sam: They just changed them.
C.J.: I know. What's yours?
Sam: Princeton.
C.J.: Mine's Flamingo.
Sam: That's nice.
C.J.: No, it's not nice.
Sam: A Flamingo's a nice looking bird.
C.J.: A Flamingo is a ridiculous looking bird.
Sam: You're not ridiculous looking.
C.J.: I know I'm not ridiculous looking.
Sam: Any way for me to get out of this conversation?
Sam: Eighty-three degrees in Bermuda. Just me, some suntan oil, and six-hundred and fifty-five pages of briefing memos.
Mrs. Landingham: It's important to remind the president throughout the day he's allergic to egg-nog.
Bartlet: Did you know there's an underground tunnel out of here?
Josh: Yes.
Bartlet: I haven't been able to find it even though I search almost every day.
Josh: Where are you going?
Bartlet: To a place called Rare Books. You know what they sell?
Josh: Fishing tackle?
Bartlet: Funny boy.
Bartlet: You want to come?
Josh: An hour with you in a rare bookstore? Couldn't you just drop me off at the top of the Washington Monument instead?
Bartlet: It's Christmas, Josh, no reason we can't do both.
Josh: Ah, here's one.
Mandy: One what?
Josh: A book which, if I was stuck with it on a desert island, I still wouldn't read it. "The Adventures of James Capen Adams, Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter of California." I believe I would eat this book before I read it.
Laurie: You're the good guys. You should act like it.
Leo: Go back to work.
Sam: It's Christmas Eve.
Leo: The country isn't open on Christmas Eve?
Sam: Fair point.
Bartlet: Toby, if we start pulling strings like this, you don't think every homeless veteran will come out of the woodwork?
Toby: I can only hope, sir.
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