The West Wing (TV Series)

Isaac and Ishmael (2001)

Bradley Whitford: Josh Lyman

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• Josh Lyman : [on what to do with terrorists]  I'd put 'em in a small cell and make them watch home movies of the birthdays and baptisms and weddings of every single person they killed over and over everyday for the rest of their lives. And then they'd get punched in the mouth every night at bedtime.

• Josh Lyman : You want to get these people? I mean, you really want to reach in and kill them where they live? Keep accepting more than one idea. It makes them absolutely crazy.

• Josh Lyman : You're juniors and seniors. In honor of the SATs you're about to take, answer the following question:

  [writing on dry eraseboard] 

  Josh Lyman : Islamic extremist is to Islamic as "blank" is to Christianity.

• Josh Lyman : I'm going to be here six presidents from now, in my office, Wile E. Coyote and a map.