The West Wing (TV Series)

The Midterms (2000)

Bradley Whitford: Josh Lyman

Quotes 

• 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.

• Josh Lyman : Hey, Leo, you know there's something called the superstring theory, which at its most basic level says that the universe consists of these tiny loops of string that vibrate at different frequencies.

  Leo McGarry : How did that bullet not kill you?

  Josh Lyman : Just lucky, I guess.

• 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.