- Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: I can't believe how many times I get asked what would be a win in the debates. At this point I feel like if - and only if - Ritchie accidentally lights his podium on fire does the President have a fighting chance.
- Josh Lyman: When the president's got an embassy surrounded in Haiti or a keyhole photograph of a heavy water reactor or any of the fifty life-and-death matters that walk across his desk every day, I don't know if he's thinking about Immanuel Kant or not. I doubt it. But, if he does, I am comforted at least in my certainty that he is doing his best to reach for all of it and not just the McNuggets. Is it possible we would be willing to require any less of the person sitting in that chair? The low road? I don't think it is.
- Charlie Young: Can you make a run to the staff secretary's office? Ellen's not there but someone should be. Make sure you just take what needs to be signed today. They're going to try to give you a whole stack and right there is where you become a man, Emily.
- Emily: Should I use sex as a tactic?
- Charlie Young: If you need to. Hell, even if you just want to.
- President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: Mike, pick yourself out a daughter. My oldest is married, but I can have it annulled. The Pope said he'd do it, I swear to God.
- Emily: Nice note?
- Charlie Young: No. At several points he suggests that I might have an improper relationship with my mother.
- Donna Moss: It was a transforming, no, that's the wrong word. We are not transformed, we locate the light switch.