- President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: You work for the President. He's going to need you down there.
- Charlie Young: I work for you, sir. Someone else can show him where the Xerox paper is.
- Glenallen Walken: In case you boys haven't noticed, I'm one prime rib dinner away from sudden cardiac arrest.
- Glenallen Walken: You know, I'm not the enemy. The things that unite us are far greater than the things that divide us.
- Leo McGarry: ...I'm not prepared to think about politics while we're under terrorist attack. The Republic comes first.
- Josh Lyman: I think we made a mistake.
- Donna Moss: What?
- Josh Lyman: Letting the President step aside.
- Will Bailey: Have you been watching CNN, MSNBC? Even FOX is treating it as a seminar on the resiliency of the Constitution.
- Josh Lyman: The President's daughter is probably tied up in the back of a gas station. We have no idea how this is playing.
- Will Bailey: He showed he's a leader, nobly embracing his own flawed humanity.
- Josh Lyman: Lincoln and Kennedy had children who died. They didn't take a sabbatical.
- Toby Ziegler: Who's been calling?
- Josh Lyman: Congressional leadership.
- Toby Ziegler: Lincoln never got a ransom note from Jefferson Davis. He's putting country before family. I'd carpet bomb Mecca to get my kids back.
- Josh Lyman: What if they like Walken better? What if he seems more presidential? What if they want Walken to stay?
- Will Bailey: In a few days, President Bartlet turns the second letter over to Congress.
- Josh Lyman: What if it doesn't take a few days? What if it takes a few weeks, a few months? What if she's never found?
- Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: Danny Concannon is doing a story alleging we assassinated Abdul Sheriff.
- Glenallen Walken: How are his sources?
- Leo McGarry: He's got it.
- Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: He's looking for a comment
- Glenallen Walken: I suppose throwing him in leg irons and locking him in the basement of the Capitol wouldn't do any good.
- Leo McGarry: We shouldn't comment, sir, not while Zoey Bartlett is missing.
- Steve Atwood: No, we need to get out in front of it, release it before it breaks in the Post.
- Toby Ziegler: Release what? That we violated The Neutrality Act to covertly assassinate an official of a friendly government?
- Steve Atwood: He must not have been too friendly if you decided to shoot him.
- Will Bailey: Sir, acknowledging the assassination destroys a century's worth of progress towards international law.
- Steve Atwood: You guys didn't think about that before you did it?
- Josh Lyman: It wasn't supposed to become public.
- Steve Atwood: Yeah well you tried that before. How did it work out on MS?
- Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: Good morning. I have with me members of the FBI team who have taken the lead role in this investigation. The FBI has opened a '7A' - that's a missing persons file - and has assigned Zoey Patricia Bartlet a control number: 7A WF 83429. The 'WF' stands for 'Washington Field Office'.