Quotes from Let Bartlet Be Bartlet
Bartlet: Can we get this God-forsaken event over with so I can get to presiding over a civilization gone to hell in a handcart?
Mrs. Landingham: Nice talk for a president.
Mrs. Landingham to Bartlet: Once again you display an immaturity about vegetables that I think is not at all presidential.
Josh: How do you know to be standing here?
Donna: I see you out the window.
Josh: You don't have a window.
Donna: You have a window.
Josh: What are you doing in my office when I'm not there?
Donna: Looking for you out the window.
Fitzwallace: We're discussing gays in the military, huh?
Thompson: Yes, sir.
Fitzwallace: Hm. What do you think? I said, what do you think?
Thompson: Sir, we're here to help the White House form a policy...
Fitzwallace: I know, I'm asking you what you think.
Tate: Sir, we're not prejudiced toward homosexuals.
Fitzwallace: You just don't want to see them serving in the armed forces.
Tate: No, sir, I don't.
Fitzwallace: Because they form a threat to unit discipline and cohesion.
Thompson: Yes, sir.
Fitzwallace: That's what I think too. I also think the military wasn't designed to be an instrument of social change.
Thompson: Yes, sir.
Fitzwallace: Problem with that is, that's what they were saying about me fifty years ago. Blacks shouldn't serve with whites. It would disrupt the unit. You know what? It did disrupt the unit. The unit got over it. The unit changed. I'm an admiral in the U.S. Navy and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Beat that with a stick.
Margaret: You're mocking me now, aren't you.
Toby: Yes.
Bartlet: I really did wake up energized this morning.
Leo: I know.
Bartlet: I never go to bed that way.
Leo: I know.
Bartlet: Just once in this job I'd like to end a day feeling as good as I did when the day started.
Bartlet: I don't want to feel like this anymore.
Leo: You don't have to.
Bartlet: I don't want to go to sleep like this.
Leo: You don't have to.
Bartlet: I want to speak.
Leo: Say it out loud. Say it to me.
Bartlet: This is more important than re-election. I want to speak now.
Leo: Say it again.
Bartlet: This is more important than re-election. I want to speak now.
Leo: Now we're in business.
Leo: We're gonna lose some of these battles, and we might even lose the White House, but we're not gonna be threatened by issues, we're gonna put 'em front and center. We're gonna raise the level of public debate in this country and let that be our legacy. That sound all right to you Josh?
Josh: I serve at the pleasure of the president of the United States.
Leo: Yeah?
C.J.: I serve at the pleasure of the president.
Sam: I serve at the pleasure of President Bartlet.
Leo: Toby?
Toby: I serve at the pleasure of the president.
Leo: Good. Let's get in the game.
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