Quotes from Five Votes Down
Toby: Why do you keep saying stuff like that to me?
C.J.: Just to see your face turn that color.
Bartlet: Toby.
Toby: Sir.
Bartlet: What'd you think?
Toby: I thought my work was outstanding, Mr. President.
Bartlet: I thought you would.
Toby: Thanks for asking. I couldn't help but notice you got a little extemporaneous there in the D section.
Bartlet: Oh, you noticed that, did you?
Toby: Yes, sir, I did.
Bartlet: Yes, I did a little polish right up there on my feet.
Toby: Yes, indeed.
Bartlet: Right in front of everybody. I looked to the side, at one point, y'know, I half expected to see you coming at me with a salad fork.
Toby: Well, but for the secret service agents restraining me, sir.
Bartlet: Yeah, thank God for the secret service.
Girls in crowd: We love you, Josh!
Josh: Thanks.
C.J.: It helps not to know him.
Leo: We got a seventy-two hour fight.
Toby: How do we do that that without making noise?
Mandy: What do we care about noise?
Leo: There are two things in the world you never want people to see how you make 'em: laws and sausages.
Margaret: How about music?
Leo: I'll put on a record.
Margaret: You don't want a violinist?
Leo: To play the violin?
Margaret: Yes.
Leo: Is that what people get now?
Margaret: I know it's available.
Leo: No, 'cause after the initial thing wears off there's just a guy with a violin in my house.
Josh: President Bartlet's a good man. He's got a good heart. He doesn't hold a grudge. That what he pays me for.
Josh: You're voting down a measure that would restrict the sale of deadly wepons because nobody invited you to the cool kids table?
Chris: It got your attention.
Josh: Y'know, I'm so sick of congress I could vomit.
Toby: There's literally no one in the world that I don't hate right now.
Leo: This is the most important thing I'll ever do, Jenny, I have to do it well.
Jenny: Not more important than your marriage.
Leo: It is more important than my marriage right now.
Josh: I really thought a nice by-product of not going out with you anymore would be that you wouldn't yell at me anymore.
Mandy: That was a bit unrealistic, wasn't it?
Bartlet: Before I go, please, let me just say this. I'm seriously thinking about getting a dog.
Sam: So, how do you feel there, big guy?
Toby: Like I just got screwed with my pants on.
Tillinger: Tell me something. What's in it for me?
Hoynes: Right now?
Tillinger: Yeah.
Hoynes: Nothing.
Tillinger: Then why am I handing you a personal political victory?
Hoynes: Because one day I'm going to be president of the United States one day and you're not.
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