The West Wing (TV Series)

The Midterms (2000)

Allison Janney: C.J. Cregg

Quotes 

• President Josiah Bartlet : And can you believe I'm on hold?

  C.J. Cregg : You're not, sir. You finished the call.

  President Josiah Bartlet : I did?

  C.J. Cregg : Yes, sir.

  President Josiah Bartlet : How'd it go?

  C.J. Cregg : Very well.

• C.J. Cregg : ...and as a special treat for our friend, Josh Lyman, who's recovering very nicely at G.W., the President's science advisor is telling us that psychics at Caltech and the Fermi National Accelerator Lab

  [Lyman is shown pounding his head against the headboard of his hospital bed] 

  C.J. Cregg : ... you know, I'm pretty sure that was supposed to be "physicists"...

• President Josiah Bartlet : Now, you don't take these people seriously 'cause they don't get anywhere nationally, but they don't have to. All they have to do is bit by little bit, get themselves on the boards of education and city councils; 'cause that's where all the governing that really matters to anybody really happens.

  C.J. Cregg : We do a little governing here, Mr. President.

• C.J. Cregg : Oh, Holy Interruptus, Batman!

• 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?

• Josh Lyman : [on speaker phone from his hospital bed]  It's called the Theory of Everything.

  C.J. Cregg : The Theory of Everything?

  Josh Lyman : Yes.

  C.J. Cregg : Is it comprehensive?

  Josh Lyman : CJ...

  C.J. Cregg : That was a joke there, pal o' mine.

• C.J. Cregg : I think you're Director of Operations and you're neglecting your responsibilities...

  Toby Ziegler : That's crap.

  C.J. Cregg : So you can behave like the director of the FBI.

  Toby Ziegler : I'm waiting for the director of the FBI to behave that way. I'm waiting for the Justice Department to behave that way. I'm waiting for Congress to behave that way. I'm waiting for Congress to behave that way. I'm waiting for the White House to behave that way!

  C.J. Cregg : You want to lock up everybody with a white sheet?

  Toby Ziegler : Yes, I do. Yes, I do. Who has a problem with that? Bring them to me right now. Yes, I do!

• C.J. Cregg : You're pissed at me?

  Toby Ziegler : I'm saying, I could've used your support in there.

  C.J. Cregg : You get my support the same way I get yours: when I agree with what you're saying or when I don't care about what you're saying. This time I disagreed.