The West Wing (TV Series)

The Midterms (2000)

Richard Schiff: Toby Ziegler

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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.

• Donna Moss : I'm perfectly serious, Toby: he's recovering from an attempted murder, he's supposed to be resting, and I don't want people going over there, getting him fetushed.

  Toby Ziegler : Fetushed. Don't bring the Yiddish unless you know what you're doing.

  Donna Moss : You know what word should be Yiddish but isn't?

  Toby Ziegler : Donna...

  Donna Moss : Spatula.

  Toby Ziegler : Thank you.

  Donna Moss : Also farfetched.

• Toby Ziegler : Why does it feel like this? I've seen shootings before.

  President Josiah Bartlet : It wasn't a shooting, Toby. It was a lynching. They tried to lynch Charlie right in front of us, can you believe that?

• 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.