Quotes from 20 Hours in L.A.

Bartlet: Are you being brusque with me?
Leo: It's three o'clock in the morning.
Bartlet: I'm just saying, you can't blame me. That's what you get from having an even number of senators.
Leo: Yeah, you should blame the constitution.
Bartlet: That's what I usually do.
Leo: Yup.

Leo: Be that way.
Bartlet: Your impersonation of my mother is getting sharper and sharper. You know that?
Leo: Thank you.

Charlie: I've been trying to listen to some of the many lessons you've been giving me on how to be a better boyfriend, and I know that attentiveness...
Zoey: No, this is one of the times when it's okay.
Charlie: Okay. It's hard to tell the difference between those times and the other times. I know. Doesn't that suck for you?
Charlie: A little bit, yeah.

C.J.: The press will wear coats and ties and you will stay in the roped-off press area outside unless you've got 50,000 bucks a couple to get a look at the good stuff.

Ted: I think you want to watch your general tone with me. I'm sending you home tomorrow with 2.5 million dollars.

Josh: How's he doing in there?
Sam: He's got that look on his face like he's thinking about ways to kill himself.

Bartlet: Is there an epidemic of flag-burning going on that I'm not aware of?

Bartlet: Those people over there don't like me that much.
Josh: They just haven't taken the time to get to know you like we have, sir.

Bartlet: We'll see you there.
Toby: I'm not coming in the car?
Bartlet: No, you know why? Because you made fun of the guacamole.
Toby: I didn't.
Bartlet: I could tell you were thinking it.
Toby: Fair enough.

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.

Bartlet: I used to like parties, you know that?

Toby: I'll be over at the bar, drinking a lot, if anybody wants me.
C.J.: Nobody will.

Joey: Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
Josh: The voice of the people is the voice of a dog.
Joey: The voice of God, Joshua.
Josh: God! Yes.

Bartlet: I'm a human starting gun, Ted. You gotta trust me, I know what I'm doing.
Ted: I do trust you, Mr. President.
Bartlet: Do you?
Ted: Yes, I do. And I like you, too.


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