Toby: I was a telemarketer for about a week. I can't remember what we were selling, but you worked off a script. "Hi. Good evening. My name is..." And "Toby Ziegler" was okay for New York, but once I got into the other time zones, I needed a name. I wasn't gonna bother anybody.
Bartlet: Toby, if you have something to say, please say it.
Toby: Ritchie's good for all time zones.
Bartlet: My family signed the Declaration of Independence. You think I've got an ethnicity problem?
Toby: Well, the line isn't between light skin and dark skin.
Bartlet: Yeah?
Toby: It's between educated and masculine. Or Eastern academic elite and plain-spoken.
Bartlet: It's always been like that.

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