The West Wing (TV Series)

In Excelsis Deo (1999)

Allison Janney: C.J. Cregg

Quotes 

• C.J. Cregg : What's your secret service code name?

  Sam Seaborn : They just changed it.

  C.J. Cregg : I know. What's yours?

  Sam Seaborn : Princeton.

  C.J. Cregg : Mine's "Flamingo".

  Sam Seaborn : That's nice.

  C.J. Cregg : No, it's not nice.

  Sam Seaborn : Flamingo's a nice-looking bird.

  C.J. Cregg : A flamingo is a ridiculous-looking bird.

  Sam Seaborn : You're not ridiculous-looking.

  C.J. Cregg : I know I'm not ridiculous-looking.

  Sam Seaborn : Any way for me to get out of this conversation?

  C.J. Cregg : I'm going to talk to someone.

  Sam Seaborn : Excellent.

• Toby Ziegler : It's not the new millennium, but I'll just let it drop.

  Sam Seaborn : It is.

  Toby Ziegler : It is not the new millennium. The year 2000 is the last year of the millennium, it's not the first year of the next one.

  Sam Seaborn : But the common sensibility, to quote Stephen Jay Gould...

  Toby Ziegler : Stephen Jay Gould needs to look at a calendar.

  Sam Seaborn : Gould says this is a largely unresolvable issue.

  Toby Ziegler : Yes, it's tough to resolve. You have to look at a calendar.

  [...] 

  Sam Seaborn : You've got to ask yourself which is more exciting - watching your car roll over from 99,999 to 100,000 or watching it go from one hundred to a hundred and one.

  C.J. Cregg : So technically the millennium is still a year away.

  Sam Seaborn : Yeah, but... we've made all these plans.