Donna: Vinick has a cold!
Annabeth: Oh, that's precious.
Josh: I'm going to send him some Vick's Vapo-Rub and a big German nurse!

Donna: We're here!
Josh: You know, everybody's really over that now.
CJ: Admiral Scott! Your expedition's returned!
Toby: Are they over it?
Josh: Yeah.
Bruno: Barnum, Bailey, and their sister Sue!
Josh: They're almost over it.

Donna: Why are you a Republican?
Cliff: Because I hate poor people. I hate them, Donna. They're all so poor, and many of 'em talk funny, and don't have proper table manners... my father slaved away at the Fortune 500 company he inherited so that I could go to Choate, Brown and Harvard and see that this country isn't overrun by poor people and lesbians. No... I'm Republican because I believe in smaller government. This country was founded on the principle of freedom, and freedom stands opposed to constraints, and the bigger the government, the more the constraints.

Donna: You called Russell a cowpoke. You said the President avoided him in the halls. You hummed "These Boots Are Made For Walking" every time the press mentioned his name.
Josh: Yeah, but I won.
Donna: It was my job, Josh. You're not used to me being in a position of authority. I'm sure that's uncomfortable.
Josh: I've got an airplane hangar out there filled with 500 strangers looking to me for direction. I've got a candidate who doesn't trust any of them, and frankly, neither do I. And if you don't think I [breath hitches] miss you every day....
Donna: [She gets up and starts to leave the office trying to hold back her tears] Thank you for your time....

Donna: You took funding for remote prayer to the President?
Josh: I did it with gusto.
Donna: That's 'cause you don't know the story of Fishhooks McCarty.
Josh: Is this a real person or a Donna person?
Donna: Corrupt politician on the Lower East Side in the '20s. Every morning he stopped at the St. James Church on Oliver Street and said the same prayer, "O Lord, give me health and strength. We'll steal the rest."
Josh: Not that there needs to be, but... was there a point?
Donna: You've got health and strength, both of which, coincidentally, I prayed for after hot lead was shot into your body.
Josh: Yeah... You're going to need some Kryptonite, by the way.
Donna: Okay, settle down.
Josh: All right.
Donna: So you've got health and strength.
Josh: And we'll steal the rest?
Donna: Bet your ass.
Josh: All right. Good work tonight.

Dr. Keyworth: Mr. President...If you were any other patient...
Bartlet: Say what you'd say to any other patient.
Dr. Keyworth: I'd say, screw around if you want, but it's your money, it's about to be my money, and I sleep fine.

Dr. Keyworth: Use me, don't use me, but all I can offer you is this: I'll be the only person in the world, other than your family, who doesn't care that you're the President. Our time is up.

Ellie: Look, we realize there's a lot that goes along with having a wedding at the White House, but anything we could do to keep the numbers under control...?
Will: Sure.
Ellie: I know my father needs to invite a lot of people but I'm not crazy about the spotlight and Vic's a little agoraphobic.
Vic: It's not a phobia.
Ellie: I was exaggerating.
Vic: It's the occasional shortness of breath.
Ellie: It's really nothing!
Vic: ...sometimes I pass out.

Engineer: Cut take.
Bartlet: Sorry, everybody. This is gonna be it. Four is my lucky number.
Donna: This is take five, sir.
Bartlet: Five is my lucky number. "Fifth-take Bartlet" - that's what Jack Warner used to call me.
Donna: Did you really know Jack Warner, Mr. President?
Bartlet: Yeah, because I used to be a contract player in Hollywood and I'm 97 years old.

Engineer: Saturday morning radio address, take 21.
Donna: I have a really good feeling about this one, sir.
Bartlet: Is this still my first term?

Enlow: If we could only say what benefit this thing has. No one's been able to do that...
Professor Milgate: That's because great achievement has no road map. Well, the X-ray's pretty good. So is Penicillin. Neither were discovered with a practical objective in mind. I mean, when the electron was discovered in 1897, it was useless. Now we have an entire world run by electronics. Haydn and Mozart never studied the classics. They couldn't--they invented them.
Sam: Discovery
Professor Milgate: What?
Sam: Discovery is what--that's what this is used for. It's for discovery.

Fitzwallace What do photographers say in the digital age, now that the old 'Come up and see my darkroom' line has gone the way of the dodo?

Fitzwallace: I don't know who the world's leading expert on warfare is, but any list of the top has got to include me and I can't tell when it's peacetime and wartime anymore.
Leo: Look, international law has always recognized certain protected persons who you couldn't attack. It's been this way since the Romans.
Fitzwallace: In peacetime.
Leo: Yes.
Fitzwallace: The Battle of Agincourt...this was the French fighting against the British archers. This was like a polo match. The battles were observed by heralds, and they picked the winners. And if a soldier laid down his arms, he was treated humanely...
Leo: Yeah.
Fitzwallace: And the international laws you're talking about...this is where a lot of them were written, at a time and in a place where a person could tell between peacetime and wartime. The idea of targeting one person was ridiculous. It wouldn't have occurred to the French to try to kill William Pitt. That all changed after Pearl Harbor�
Leo: I don't like where this conversation's going...
Fitzwallace: We killed Yamamoto. We shot down his plane.
Leo: We declared war...
Fitzwallace: If Dietrich Bonhoeffer had been successful...
Leo: ...and the plot to kill Hitler was an internal rebellion.
Fitzwallace: ...there would have been statues built of an assassin. We'd've had to explain that to our kids!
Leo: I'm going to get back to the office.
Fitzwallace: We measure the success of a mission by two things: was it successful and how few civilians did we hurt. They measure success by how many. Pregnant women are delivering bombs! You're talking to me about international laws? The laws of nature don't even apply here! I've been a soldier for thirty-eight years, and I've found an enemy I can kill. He can't cancel Shareef's trip, Leo. You've got to tell him, he can't cancel it.

Fitzwallace: Mr. President.
Bartlet: Fitz! Fitz, you old polecat, you old so-and-so.
Fitzwallace: Trying to be "one of the fellas," sir?
Bartlet: Yeah.
Fitzwallace: Well, well done, sir.

Fitzwallace: Wait a second, hang on. You're telling me that foreign policy of this magnitude is conducted through Sam, and I'm still alive?
Sam: We're pretty impressed ourselves, Mr. Chairman.