The West Wing (TV Series)

17 People (2001)

Emily Procter: Ainsley Hayes

Quotes 

• Ainsley Hayes : Donna, who gave you those beautiful flowers at your desk?

  Josh Lyman : I did! Me. Those are from me.

  Ainsley Hayes : What's the occasion?

  Donna Moss : Nothing.

  Josh Lyman : Our anniversary.

  Donna Moss : Our *not* anniversary.

  Josh Lyman : Donna doesn't like to talk about it.

  Donna Moss : I really don't.

  Ainsley Hayes : Okay.

  Sam Seaborn : A few years ago Donna's boyfriend broke up with her so she started working for Josh but then the boyfriend told her to come back and she did and then they broke up and she came back to work...

  Donna Moss : [Donna gestures at Sam in exasperation] 

  Sam Seaborn : I thought you meant YOU didn't want to talk about it. I'm a spokesman. It's in my blood.

• Sam Seaborn : [speaking about the Equal Rights Amendment]  How can you have an objection to something that says...

  Ainsley Hayes : Because it's humiliating. A new amendment we vote on declaring that I am equal under the law to a man, I am mortified to discover there's reason to believe I wasn't before. I am a citizen of this country, I am not a special subset in need of your protection. I do not have to have my rights handed down to me by a bunch of old, white, men. The same Article 14 that protects you, protects me, and I went to law school just to make sure.

• Sam Seaborn : I flat-out guarantee you that if men were biologically responsible for procreation, there'd be paid family leave in every Fortune 500.

  Ainsley Hayes : Sam, if men were biologically responsible for procreation, they'd fall down and die at the first sonogram.

• Sam Seaborn : I'm going to register with the Republican Party. And I'll tell you why, if you're curious. It's because they're a freedom-loving people.

  Ainsley Hayes : We also like beef.