- Toby Ziegler: I throw a rubber ball against the window; that means you come to me. As my frustration level grows, so does the velocity of the ball against the window.
- Will Bailey: Don't you ever worry about the window breaking?
- Toby Ziegler: During moments of peak frustration: when the Speaker of the House threatened to repeal the 16th Amendment, a couple of Yankee games, and when Congress censured my boss... but it's always held up, that window; that window is a game-day player.
- Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Bryce Lilly: Are you rewriting the section?
- Will Bailey: Yes, sir.
- Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Bryce Lilly: Dramatically?
- Will Bailey: Well, I like to think I have a certain flair.
- Archbishop Zake Kintaka: Patrick, you may pray all you wish, but thousands upon thousands of African children will die unless the U.S. intervenes. Tens of thousands of Kundunese children and their parents slaughtered.
- Cardinal: Well, I don't control the armed forces Zake.
- President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: No he was talking to me, Your Eminence. Your Excellency, I got a very sketchy intelligence report on the violence in the capital about an hour ago.
- Archbishop Zake Kintaka: The violence isn't limited to Batang sir, it has spread to the countryside.
- President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: I didn't know that.
- Archbishop Zake Kintaka: May I ask you something, sir, with all due respect.
- President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: Yes.
- Archbishop Zake Kintaka: If mass genocide had broken out in a small European country, would your intelligence briefing this morning have been quite so "sketchy"?
- President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: No.
- President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: Some of which have my name on them. So tell Jeff Tomlison and Baby Bob to take a deep knee bend, would you? I'm just as big a cotton candy ass as they are.
- Josh Lyman: Yes, sir.
- President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: You're just going to let that hang in the air?
- Josh Lyman: Of course not, sir. You're a much bigger cotton candy ass than they are.
- President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: Damn right.
- C.J. Cregg: This is ridiculous. It's been ridiculous ever since you came back.
- Danny Concannon: What?
- C.J. Cregg: Would you mind if I turned off the lights?
- Danny Concannon: No.
- C.J. Cregg: It's just easier this way. For three years, I have been thinking about what might have been if it weren't for the...
- Danny Concannon: Yeah?
- C.J. Cregg: Conflict.
- Danny Concannon: Yeah?
- C.J. Cregg: And I'm almost over it, I mean, I am right there and you come back with your scruffy face and your jokes and your incredible talent and your way of getting at me.
- Will Bailey: You and Leo McGarry and Josh are his senior counselors. And it's not like he doesn't already want to go there.
- Toby Ziegler: This language proposes a new doctrine for the use of force. That we use force whenever we see an injustice we want to correct. Like Mother Teresa with first strike capabilities.
- President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: Why is a Kundunese life worth less to me than an American life?
- Will Bailey: I don't know, sir, but it is.