The West Wing (TV Series)

In Excelsis Deo (1999)

Richard Schiff: Toby Ziegler

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• President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : [Toby has just arranged for an honor guard at the funeral of a homeless vet]  Toby, If we start pulling strings like this don't you think every homeless veteran will come out of the woodwork?

  Toby Ziegler : I can only hope so, sir.

• Mandy Hampton : This might seem trivial under the circumstances...

  Toby Ziegler : What?

  Mandy Hampton : The Santa hats do clash with the Dickensian costumes.

  Toby Ziegler : It *might* seem trivial?

• 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.