“You wanna mock people, or you want to let me talk to Toby?”
- Bartlet: Toby's concerned that the peaceful solution I brokered in Kashmir last year was the result of a drug-induced haze.
- Leo: I was there with him. So was Fitz. So was Cashman, Hutchinson, Berryhill...
- Toby: Well, that's fantastic.
- Leo: Toby.
- Toby: None of you were elected!
- Bartlet: I was elected, they were appointed. The Vice President was elected. He has the constitutional authority to assume my--
- Toby: Not last May, he didn't. Last May, when you were under general anesthesia.
- Bartlet: That's because I never signed the letter, but I don't think I got shot because I got MS.
- Toby: No, I don't think you did either, sir. I meant that during a night of extreme chaos and fear when we didn't yet know if we'd been the victims of domestic or foreign terrorism, or even an act of war, there was uncertainty as to who was giving the national security orders and it was because you never signed the letter. So I'm led to wonder, given your condition and it’s lack of predictability, why there isn’t simply a signed letter sitting in a file someplace. And the answer, of course, is that if there was a–a signed letter sitting in a file someplace, somebody would ask why. The Commander in Chief had just been attacked, he was under a general anesthetic, a fugitive was at large, the manhunt included every federal state and local law enforcement agency. The Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware National Guard units were federalized. The KH-10s showed Republican Guard movement in southern Iraq. And 12 hours earlier an F-117 was shot down in the no-fly, and the Vice President's authority was murky at best! The National Security Advisor and the Secretary of State didn't know who they were taking their orders from. I wasn't in the Situation Room that night, but I'll bet all the money in my pockets against all the money in your pockets that it was Leo. Who no one elected! For 90 minutes that night, there was a coup d'état in this country.
- Bartlet: And the walls came tumbling down. I feel fine, by the way, thanks for asking.
Leo: Listen up. Our ground game isn’t working; we’re gonna put the ball in the air. If we’re gonna walk into walls, I want us running into them full-speed.
Josh: What are you saying?
Leo: Well, you can start by telling the Hill the President’s named his nominees to the FEC. And we’re gonna lose some of these battles. And we might even lose the White House. But we’re not going to be threatened by issues: we’re going to put ‘em front and center. We’re gonna raise raise the level of public debate in this country, and let that be our legacy. That sound alright to you Josh?
Josh: I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States.
Leo: Yeah?
CJ: I serve at the pleasure of the President.
Sam: I serve at the pleasure of President Bartlet.
Leo: Toby?
Toby: I serve at the pleasure of the President.
The West Wing 1x19 “Let Bartlet Be Bartlet”
The West Wing, 3.08 — “The Women of Qumar”
I didn’t realize babies come with hats. You guys crack me up. You don’t have jobs, you can’t walk or speak the language, you don’t have a dollar in your pockets, but you’ve got yourself a hat so everything’s fine. I don’t want to alarm you or anything but… I’m Dad.
And for you, son — for you this will be the last time I pass the buck, but I think it should be clear from the get go that it was Mom who named you Huckleberry. I guess she was feeling like life doesn’t present enough challenges to overcome on its own. And honey, you’ve got a name now too. Your mom and I named you after an incredibly brave… uh, an incredibly brave woman; really not all that much older than you. Your name is Molly. Huck and Molly.
So, what do I do? Well, you’re going to need food and clothes and doctors and dentists, and there’s that. And, should you have any questions along the way…
This isn’t going to mean anything to you, but Leo was right. Leo was right.
- CJ: And to establish justice and promote the general welfare. Stand by while atrocities are taking place, and you're an accomplice.
- Toby: I'm not indifferent to that, but knuckle headed self-destruction is never going to burn itself out, you really want to send your kids across the street and into the fire?
- CJ: Want to? No. Should I? Yes.
- Toby: Why? And don't give me a lefty answer.
- CJ: A lefty answer is all I've got.
- Toby: Why are you sending your kids across the street?
- CJ: 'Cause those are somebody's kids too.
- -The West Wing, 4x15 "Inauguration- Over There"
The West Wing 4x06 “Election Night”
victoria
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