Quotes from War Crimes


Bartlet: It sucked.
Abbey: You're talking about church.
Bartlet: Oh, like I'm not already going to hell.
Charlie: What was the problem?
Abbey: He feels the homily lacked panache.
Charlie: It did lack panache.

Abbey: You are an oratorical snob.
Bartlet: Yes, I am, and God loves me for it.

Adamley: Sultan Bin Abu Azir ain't what he used to be. Last time I was in Kuwait he gave me a gold-inlaid Gadara sword originating from the Bin Hamar tribe.
Leo: What'd you get this time?
Adamley: Nothing.
Leo: Wanna go down to the Situation Room, blow 'em off the face of the earth?
Adamley: Yeah.

Bartlet: Texans don't like that you have the courage of your convictions?
Hoynes: They're not my convictions, they're yours.
Bartlet: Oh, yeah, I forgot.

Sam: If you're in the middle of something, I can come back.
Adamley: We're eliminating genocide. What are you doing?
Sam: Eliminating the penny. So, I'll come back.

Toby: We're a group. We're a team. From the president and Leo on through, we're a team. We win together, we lose together. We celebrate and we mourn together. And defeats are softened and victories sweetened becasue we did them together. And if you don't like this team, then there's the door.

Leo: Why did you tell me that?
Adamley: Because, you could be charged and tried for a war crime.
Leo: Why did you tell me that?!
Adamley: All wars are crimes.

Hoynes: I suppose the concern has more to do with the threat to the second ammendment.
Bartlet: We can't all just agree that it's a stupid-ass ammendment that was written before there were street lamps much less police forces and move on?

Bartlet: It's not easy being my Vice-President, is it?
Hoynes: No, sir.
Bartlet: I wouldn't think so.


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