Quotes from On the Day Before
Bartlet: You know what we're starting with tonight?
Josh: No, sir.
Bartlet: Hot pumpkin soup with cheese gnocchi and a chévre brioche.
Josh: Was anything you just said food?
C.J.: I've been seated next to a chemist tonight.
Bartlet: Mullis?
C.J.: Twenty-three nobel prize winners in the east room, I couldn't get literature or, I dunno, peace or something?
Josh: If the house successfully overrides the veto we're going to look weak.
Bartlet: If the house successfully overrides the veto we are weak.
Sherri: C.J., can you tell us what you're wearing?
C.J.: It's a dress.
Sherri: C.J....
C.J.: Diane Cook.
Josh: I wouldn't know a spotted owl if he walked up and introduced himself.
Leo: Maybe maybe maybe we can get Israel to hold their fire tonight.
Bartlet: Would you?
Leo: No.
Buckland: You want to see me do some push-ups?
Josh: Yeah, that's what I want.
Toby: Charlie?
Charlie: I can't talk about it.
Toby: You didn't know what I was going to say.
Charlie: Immunity?
Toby: Yeah.
Charlie: I can't talk about it.
Toby: I could have been talking about a flu vaccine.
Charlie: That's immunization.
Toby: Yeah.
Josh: He can have a member try to attach an ammendment to the override vote.
Donna: What kind of ammendment?
Josh: Doesn't matter. To qualify for the estate tax repeal the estates have to have Astroturf.
Donna: And still it's hard to figure why Congress can't get anything done.
Royce: Do you even know who your friends are anymore?
Leo: Don't be a hero.
Charlie: Why not? I'll stay with my team.
Bartlet: This guy at the dinner, he told me something I didn't know. On Yom Kippur you ask forgiveness for sins against God. But on the day before Yom Kippur you ask forgiveness for sins against people. Did you know that?
Toby: Yeah, it's called, uh... I can't remember.
Josh: It's Erev.
Toby: Erev Yom Kippur.
Josh: You can't ask forgiveness of God until you've asked forgiveness of people on the day before.
Bartlet: I have three children. I really don't know what to say.
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