The West Wing (TV Series)
The Midterms (2000)
Rob Lowe: Sam Seaborn
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Quotes
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Josh Lyman : The House stayed the same? After four months and 400 million dollars, everything stayed the same.
Sam Seaborn : Yup.
Josh Lyman : Tell me democracy doesn't have a sense of humor. We sit here, we drink this beer out here on the stoop, in violation about 47 city ordinances. I don't know, Toby, it's election night. What do you say about a government that goes out of its way to protect even citizens that try to destroy it?
Toby Ziegler : God bless America.
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President Josiah Bartlet : Anybody know what the word "acalculia" means?
Sam Seaborn : It's an inability to perform arithmetic functions. I'm sorry, Mr. President; you wanted to answer your own question, didn't you?
President Josiah Bartlet : Yeah, but I'll get over it.
Sam Seaborn : Good for you, sir, that's very mature.
President Josiah Bartlet : Shut up.
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Sam Seaborn : Grant Samuels died.
C.J. Cregg : Really?
Sam Seaborn : Yes.
C.J. Cregg : He really died this time?
Sam Seaborn : Yeah.
C.J. Cregg : 'Cause last time you told me he was dead, he wasn't.
Sam Seaborn : He's dead this time.
C.J. Cregg : Somebody poked him a little to see if...
Sam Seaborn : He died, CJ!
C.J. Cregg : Well, okay, then I shouldn't have made a joke.
Sam Seaborn : [wavering] I'm almost certain he's dead.
C.J. Cregg : Sam!
Sam Seaborn : I was making a joke, too - what, you work alone?
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Tom Jordan : Sam, this is my wife, Sarah.
Sarah Jordan : Hi!
Sam Seaborn : It's nice to meet you. You got married!
Tom Jordan : Two years. With a baby on the way.
Sam Seaborn : [to Sara] Is it his?
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Sam Seaborn : When asked whose approach on important national problems do you think is generally best, President Bartlet or the Republican leaders of Congress, Bartlet gets 61 percent.
President Josiah Bartlet : Well, 19 percent of the country has clearly made up their minds about me, 20 percent just feels sorry for me. This is what you want if you're the leader of the free world.