Quotes from Han


C.J.: Who's playing?
Leo: I don't know. It's classical piano. Who can tell one from the other?
C.J.: The President.
Leo: So he claims.

Leo: What's the matter with you guys? Man's got a Nobel in this.

Toby: In a triumph of the middling, a nod to mediocrity, and with gorge rising, it gives me great nausea to announce Robert Russell, Bingo Bob himself, as your new Vice President.
Will: This lap dog of mining interests is as dull as he is unremarkable.
Toby: As lackluster as he is soporific.
Will: Good.
Toby: This reversion to the mean...
Will: ...this rebuke to the exemplary...
Toby: ...gives hope to the millions unfavored by the exceptional.
Will: Yes.
Toby: The Vice Presidency, being famously once described as not being worth a warm bucket of spit, let's now hawk a big loogie for Bob Russell. Not the worst, not the best, just what we're stuck with.
Will: Amen.

Ahn: You know Korean word "Han?"

Leo: It's a crapshoot.
Bartlet: The negotiations are a crapshoot. The whole damn job's a crapshoot.

Leo: We have a Vice President.
Josh: About time.
Leo: I may actually sleep tonight.
Josh: Probably not.
Leo: Probably not.

Russell: I know my public profile, my political persona. I'm just glad to see such a keen awareness of the scale of the job that you've all got ahead of you. I'm part of the team now, which makes all this pretty much your problem. Good luck with it.

Josh: You look great.
Amy: Thanks. So do you.
Josh: Everyone looks great in a tux. Chimps look great.
Amy: With none actually present, I'll have to settle for you.

Bartlet: There's a Korean word, Han. I looked it up. There is no literal English translation. It's a state of mind, of soul really. A sadness... a sadness so deep no tears will come. And yet still, there's hope.


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