The West Wing (TV Series)

Bartlet for America (2001)

John Spencer: Leo McGarry

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• Atty. Jordon Kendall : I don't understand how you could have a drink. I don't understand how after everything you worked for - how, on that day of all days, you could be so stupid.

  Leo McGarry : That's because you think it has something to do with smart and stupid. Do you have any idea how many alcoholics are in Mensa? You think it's a lack of willpower? That's like thinking somebody with anorexia nervosa has an overdeveloped sense of vanity...

• Leo McGarry : Don't help me.

  Josh Lyman : I'm going to help you, 'cause you know why?

  Leo McGarry : 'Cause you walk around with so much guilt about everybody you love dying that you're a compulsive fixer?

  Josh Lyman : No, Leo, no. It's 'cause a guy is walking down the street and he falls into a hole, see.

  Leo McGarry : Yeah.

  Josh Lyman : Yeah.

• Atty. Jordon Kendall : You had a drink?

  Leo McGarry : I'm an alcoholic, I don't have one drink. I don't understand people who have one drink. I don't understand people who leave half a glass of wine on the table. I don't understand people who say they've had enough. How can you have enough of feeling like this? How can you not want to feel like this longer? My brain works differently.