Quotes from The Drop-In


Bartlet: Okay, well, golf's not a sport. It's fine, don't get me wrong, but let's not you and I confuse it with things that men do.

Mrs. Landingham: In my day we knew how to protect ourselves.
Leo: Well, in your day you could pretty much turn back the Indians with a Daniel Boone musket, couldn't you?
Mrs. Landingham: Ah, sarcasm, the grumpy man's wit.
Leo: Sharpen a pencil, would you?

Bartlet to Leo: You know what you are? You are the Charlie Brown of missile defense.

Bartlet to Leo: The words you're looking for are, "Oh, good grief."

C.J.: It's not going to be Sir Christopher Nealing-Roach.
Josh: I heard.
C.J.: I said it's not going to be Sir Christopher Nealing-Roach.
Josh: And I said I heard.
C.J.: But I like to say Sir Christopher Nealing-Roach.
Josh: Who's it gonna be?
C.J.: I'm waiting to hear from someone at the State Department
Josh: Me too.
C.J.: Maybe it'll be Sir Christopher Nealing-Roach.
Josh: Can I stop talking to you now?

Toby: We don't have to move to our right if there's an opportunity to smack the people to our left.

Bartlet: Sweden has a hundred percent literacy rate, Leo. A hundred percent. How do they do that?
Leo: Well, maybe they don't and they also can't count.
Bartlet: Maybe.

Bartlet: Two-thousand environmentalists are going to try to kill me tomorrow night.
Charlie: We should go, sir.
Bartlet: They're going to come at me with vegan food and pitchforks.
Charlie: That doesn't really sound like something people do.
Bartlet: Still, I'd like you to get between me and any boiled seaweed you see coming my way.
Charlie: Yep.

Leo to Marbury: Let's go get you knighted or whatever the hell it is we do.

Donna: Ambassador Marbury was just telling me about how royal men are schooled in the ways of courtship. King George III, for example, sailed his bride up the river Thames to music that was speically composed.
Leo: Yeah, that was a just a few years before we opened up a big can of whupass on him at Yorktown.

Josh: Why don't we just give the sixty-billion to North Korea in exchange for not bombing us?
Bartlet: It's almost hard to believe that you're not on the national security council.
Josh: I know, I feel like they're missing an important voice.


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