Quotes from The Short List


Mrs. Landingham: Josh.
Josh: Yes, Mrs. Landingham?
Mrs. Landingham: It it done?
Josh: Well, that depends on your answer to this question, Mrs. Landingham. Who da man?
Mrs. Landingham: Excuse me, Josh?
Josh: Umm... who da man?
Mrs. Landingham: You da man.
Josh & Sam: We da man!

Bartlet: Which one of you is the man?
Toby: On this one we'd like to think of ourselves collectively as the men, sir.

Toby: C.J., no leaks. If the name of this nominee is leaked out before I want it to be leaked out I'm gonna blame you and you're gonna find that unpleasant.
C.J.: I've got to tell you something, Toby, you're hot when you're like this.

Josh: You should be nice to me, I could be dead, y'know.
Donna: I don't have that kind of luck.

C.J.: Set fire to the room. Do it now.

Danny: Josh, this is one of those times, man, don't screw this up.
Josh: C.J. likes goldfish.
Danny: What?
Josh: She likes goldfish, can't get enough of them.

Josh: You're Leo McGarry. You're not going to be taken down by this small fraction of a man. I won't permit it.

C.J.: You were right.
Danny: I know.
C.J.: The word subpoena appears in the lead in every story in this morning's papers.
Danny: I know.
C.J.: Not yours.
Danny: That's just 'cause I couldn't spell it.

Sam: "If we list a set of rights, some fools in the future are going to claim that people are entitled only to those rights enumerated and no others." So, the framers knew...
Harrison: Were you just calling me a fool, Mr. Seaborn?
Sam: I wasn't calling you a fool, sir, the brand new state of Georgia was.

Sam: It's not just about abortion, it's about the next 20 years. '20s and '30s it was the role of government, '50s and '60s it was civil rights, the next two decades are gonna be privacy. I'm talking about the internet. I'm talking about cell phones. I'm talking about health records and who's gay and who's not. And moreover, in a country born on the will to be free, what could be more fundamental than this?

Leo: Mr. President...
Bartlet: What is it, Leo?
Leo: There's gonna be trouble.

Bartlet: Tomorrow evening at five o'clock I am naming you as my nominee to be the next associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. You were not the first choice, but you are the last one and the right one.


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