- Sam Seaborn: You might be asked first thing tomorrow if you're endorsing me.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Am I?
- Sam Seaborn: Well, I'm not really running.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Then I'm behind you 100%.
- Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: In a poll taken three days after the MS announcement, the President lost to Ritchie by nine points. He won by 11. You did it.
- Bruno Gianelli: It helps when you cook with the right food.
- Abbey Bartlet: Hon, is this, like, nerd hot talk?
- President Josiah Bartlet: Who's your Commander-in-Chief?
- Abbey Bartlet: You are.
- Atty. Jordon Kendall: If you walk me through every demographic, I think the night's not going to have the kind of happy ending you were hoping for.
- Sam Seaborn: That was pretty impressive, though it was an Aristotelian confluence of events that could only happen to me.
- Leo McGarry: Boy, you're in the Air Force, the private sector, the Labor Department, two Presidential campaigns, and rehab and you think you've seen it all, but it turns out you haven't 'cause Sam Seaborn is going to be the Democratic candidate for Congress in Orange County.