Quotes from 18th and Potomac
Josh: Is there anything in there that we're going to like?
Joey: We are, in fact, eating more beets.
Joey: 74% believe MS to be fatal.
Bartlet: They may be right.
Bartlet: Joey, is there any good news in there at all?
Joey: No, sir.
Charlie: Are you getting an eight-speaker stereo?
Mrs. Landingham: No.
Charlie: Six speakers?
Mrs. Landingham: No.
Charlie: How many speakers?
Mrs. Landingham: I have two ears. How many speakers do I need?
Toby: Sam, can Josiah Bartlet function as president?
Sam: I'm not a medical expert.
Toby: Right.
Sam: Toby, there is a responsibility and the future and an obligation to the party, and if he is not gonna run, then he has got to point to Hoynes and say, "This is our guy."
Toby: And what if they ask Hoynes, "In the meantime, can Bartlet function as president?"
Sam: He'll say, "Yes."
Toby: What if he says, "I'm not a medical expert?"
Josh: This is a phenomenally important case. It's historic, it has to be won, and we're fighting it with paperclips and a sling-shot.
Toby: I'm going to tell you something shocking, except we don't have time to be shocked, so I need you to just hear it and go back to work.
C.J.: I was looking for Leo.
Charlie: He's in the situation room.
C.J.: That's usually a good sign.
Paul: C.J.
C.J.: Yeah.
Paul: Between friends.
C.J.: Yeah.
Paul: Is the water over your head.
C.J.: No, the water's exactly at my head.
Josh: It's almost three o'clock. By seven, three-thousand new people will have taken up smoking. Two-thousand eight-hundred of them will be under eighteen. Thanks.
Mrs. Landingham: You know I could beat you up anytime I want, sir.
Bartlet: Secret Service would have you down like a calf at a rodeo.
Mrs. Landingham: When you get inside, there's this...
Bartlet: Smell?
Mrs. Landingham: How did you know?
Bartlet: It's the smell of freedom... and the chemicals they treat your dashboard with.
Abbey: I'd like to be next to my husband when he does this.
Oliver: I'd like you to get your own lawyer.
Abbey: Is there anything else?
Oliver: No. Thank you, Dr. Bartlet.
Toby: We have to have a discussion and we have to have it tonight!
Leo: We're having a discussion.
Toby: When?
Leo: Tonight.
Josh: You told Donna.
Toby: Yeah.
Josh: Why didn't you let me?
Toby: You hadn't yet.
Josh: How'd she take it?
Toby: If everybody out there takes it the way she did, we may be okay. If a few more people in here took it the way she did, that'd be all right too.
Josh: Was that for me?
Toby: That was for me.
Leo: We're not gonna stop, soften, detour, postpone, circumvent, obfuscate, or trade a single one of our goals to allow for whatever extra-curricular nonsense is coming our way in the next few days, weeks or months.
Toby: When did we decide this?
Leo: Just now.
C.J.: We need a discussion, and I hate to sound shrill, but it can't wait another night.
Toby: We're having a discussion.
C.J.: When?
Toby: Tonight.
C.J.: Really?
Leo: Yeah.
C.J.: That's great.
Leo: Charlie?
Charlie: Leo, there was an accident at 18th and Potomac. Mrs. Landingham was driving her car back here.
Leo: What happened?
Charlie: There was a drunk driver, and they ran a light at 18th and Potomac. They ran it a high speed.
Leo: Charlie, is she all right?
Charlie: No, she's dead.
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