Walken: You know I'm not the enemy. The things that unite us are far greater than things that divide us. We both believe in democracy, preservation of American values, protection of our citizens in a sometimes hostile world.
C.J.: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
Walken: Exactly.

Will: [About Bob Russell] He's not stupid.
Josh: That's your bumper sticker?

Will: [as Santos enters] Quick, hide the ouija board.
Santos: See, they can afford ouija boards. Josh still has us reading chicken entrails.

Will: [at a press conference on TV] Uh, they'll be walking down the aisle to "Sorge Nel Patto", the aria Gaffredo sings to his daughter in Handel's Rinaldo. The aria was picked for its beauty and its text, which translates roughly to, "a certain delight surges from my breast and promises to calm my heart."
Kate: That was lovely.
Will: I made it up. Don't tell.

Will: [going over the guest list] Andrew Edward... what's he doing in the H's? Oh, right! His Royal Highness, Duke of York.
[Vic stands up and looks uncomfortable]
Ellie: Do you want to get some air?
Will: Hey, at least he's not bringing the Queen. [pauses and checks the list] Oh, maybe he is bringing the Queen...

Will: [on the tiff with Canada] The Vice President advocates a hard line.
Kate: Permanent lockout in the NHL? Maple syrup embargo? Turn off Niagara Falls?

Will: [to Josh] He's smart enough to take your advice... Bob Russell might be the next President of the United States. You get in now, you can make him the candidate you want him to be. After that we make him the President we need him to be.

Will: Diane Frost is a serious name.
Josh: Diane is a serious loon of the left.
Toby: I love Diane Frost. I'd marry Diane Frost if I were a member of her stated sexual preference, but Diane is the definition of unelectable.

Will: He hates me.
CJ: Oh, yeah. The way you hate the girl you ask to the prom who says, 'No thanks, I already have a date.' You made a choice. Now own it.

Will: I came in to show you the spots and to tell you I think we should run a counter-ad. I don't have an idea for one.
Toby: Well get one! Have an idea! Don't come in here with half a thing and not be able to - you know, after you've walked me to the brink, and say 'we've got to do this, it's important, though I have no earthly idea how.' Like one of those guys who buys a big new thing, but doesn't really know how to get the most out of it!
Will: Toby, either get Andy to marry you, or kill yourself.
Toby: [pause] Yeah.

Will: I have a thing of yours.
Kate: My Pyongyang book, good. I tore up my whole office looking for it.
Will: It's not that.
Kate: Really?
Will: Really.
Kate: It's in a blue binder. It may not be --
Will: Nothing in a blue binder.
Kate: Are you sure? I mean, picking it out --
Will: It's a bra.
Kate: ...oh, okay.

Will: I heard once - I don't know if this is true - I heard once that you convinced the President to let you rewrite a section of the State of the Union with less than twenty-four hours to go. It was the second year and everybody was a Republican, whether they were or not, and people at the DNC had convinced him to include the line, 'The era of big government is over.' And you couldn't live with it. Because government should be a place where people come together and no one gets left behind. An instrument of good. And that's exactly what we heard in the State of the Union the next night.
Toby: There were maybe four people in the room when I had that conversation.
Will: Well, if I'd have been one of them, I would have repeated it to everyone I met.

Will: I need to see my bed, I'm thinking of carrying a picture of it in my wallet.

Will: Seriously, Toby, you put me in that office and everyone who works on the speech-writing staff is gonna resent me.
Toby: Don't be ridiculous. It's a West Wing office. Everyone who works in the White House is gonna resent you.

Will: Sixty percent is 6 of 10 in a focus group. You change one mind, it's a dead heat. You change two, it's a landslide. This campaign's a mechanism of persuasion. We're not asking for a show of hands.