The West Wing (TV Series)

The Leadership Breakfast (2001)

Bradley Whitford: Josh Lyman

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Quotes 

• Josh Lyman : Donna?

  Donna Moss : What was in the envelope?

  Josh Lyman : Your underwear.

  Donna Moss : What?

  Josh Lyman : I'm holding your underwear in my hand right now. And the way I know it's your underwear is that your name is sewn in the back which, obviously, we'll spend some time talking about at a later date.

• Josh Lyman : Could you possibly get us some dried leaves?

  Donna Moss : Yeah, I'll just run out to the forest and be right back.

  Donna Moss : [Donna leaves room] 

  Sam Seaborn : You know what?

  Josh Lyman : You think she was being sarcastic?

  Sam Seaborn : Yeah. I don't think she's getting the leaves.

  Josh Lyman : You know what we could use?

  Sam Seaborn : Newspaper.

  Josh Lyman : See, this is what I'm talking about. This is teamwork.

  Sam Seaborn : It really is.

• President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Who was the idiot who set off the smoke alarm last night?

  Josh Lyman : Well, it sounds a lot like you're talking about Sam, Mr. President.

  Sam Seaborn : Were you inconvenienced, sir?

  President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : They had me on the Truman balcony for 6 minutes in my underwear.

  Sam Seaborn : Was it cold?

  President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : In January? No. Why do you ask?

• Sam Seaborn : In fact we were talking about the stability of former Soviet republics and their fear of Islamic extremism and I have to say that I made some very scholarly points regarding the remaining nuclear weapons in Kyrgyzstan and I have to believe...

  Josh Lyman : Kazakhstan.

  Sam Seaborn : Hmm?

  Josh Lyman : The nuclear weapons are in Kazakhstan.

  Sam Seaborn : I said Kyrgyzstan?

  Josh Lyman : Yeah.

  Sam Seaborn : Yeah, well, Kyrgyzstan has no nuclear weapons.

  Josh Lyman : No.

  Sam Seaborn : Kazakhstan's a country four times the size of Texas and has a sizable number of former Russian missile silos.

  Josh Lyman : Yeah.

  Sam Seaborn : Kyrgyzstan's on the side of a hill near China and has mostly nomads and sheep.

• Josh Lyman : How's this for a phrase? "You can lay down in front of the train or you can get on board."

  Sam Seaborn : That's a really bad phrase.

  Josh Lyman : Is it better if it's "You can get on board the train or you can lay down in front of it"?

  Sam Seaborn : No. It's really bad either way.

• Donna Moss : Josh, this was delivered by messenger.

  Josh Lyman : What is it?

  Donna Moss : It's... wait, wait. No, damn, my x-ray vision is failing me today.

  Josh Lyman : Gimme that!

• Donna Moss : You're not using lighter fluid or anything, are you?

  Josh Lyman : No, no flammable liquids of any kind to start a fire, ever.

  Sam Seaborn : Found it.

  Josh Lyman : What?

  Sam Seaborn : Kerosene.

  Donna Moss : Josh...

  Josh Lyman : Go.

• Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg : [walking by Sam and Josh]  Fred and Ethel, would you follow me, please?

  Josh Lyman : [looks at Sam]  She's talking about us.