Quotes from In This White House


Ainsley: Textbooks are important, if for no other reason than they accurately place the town of Kirkwood in California and not Oregon.

Josh: Toby, come quick, Sam's getting his ass kicked by a girl.
Toby: Ginger, get the popcorn.

Tom: You are gonna get a lot of work ripping these people to shreds and looking good doing it.
Ainsley: That's an actual job now?

Toby: I think President Nimbala's saying there's more money in giving a white guy an erection than curing a black guy of AIDS.

Leo: You have an interesting conversational style, you know that?
Ainsley: It's a nervous condition.
Leo: I used to have a nervous condition.
Ainsley: How did yours manifest itself.
Leo: I drank a lot of scotch.
Ainsley: I get sick when I drink too much.
Leo: I get drunk when I drink too much.

Ainsley: I'm sorry. A job in this White House?
Leo: You want a glass of scotch?
Ainsley: Yes, please.

C.J.: I rode the Lifecycle this morning for an hour and a half. If it was a real cycle I'd have been in Belgium by now.

Leo: Ainsley.
Ainsley: Yes, sir.
Leo: Don't you want to work in the White House?
Ainsley: Oh, only since I was two.
Leo: Okay, then.
Ainsley: It has to be the this White House?
Leo: Ainsley.
Ainsley: Mr. McGarry....
Leo: The president likes smart people who disagree with him. He wants to hear from you. The president's asking you to serve, and everything else is crap.

Nimbala: It's a terrible thing to beg for your life. Terrible.


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