The West Wing (TV Series)
Inauguration: Part 1 (2003)
Martin Sheen: President Josiah Bartlet
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Quotes
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President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet : I can't remember your name, but are you asking me out on a date?
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Archbishop Zake Kintaka : Patrick, you may pray all you wish, but thousands upon thousands of African children will die unless the U.S. intervenes. Tens of thousands of Kundunese children and their parents slaughtered.
Cardinal : Well, I don't control the armed forces Zake.
President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet : No he was talking to me, Your Eminence. Your Excellency, I got a very sketchy intelligence report on the violence in the capital about an hour ago.
Archbishop Zake Kintaka : The violence isn't limited to Batang sir, it has spread to the countryside.
President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet : I didn't know that.
Archbishop Zake Kintaka : May I ask you something, sir, with all due respect.
President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet : Yes.
Archbishop Zake Kintaka : If mass genocide had broken out in a small European country, would your intelligence briefing this morning have been quite so "sketchy"?
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President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet : Some of which have my name on them. So tell Jeff Tomlison and Baby Bob to take a deep knee bend, would you? I'm just as big a cotton candy ass as they are.
Josh Lyman : Yes, sir.
President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet : You're just going to let that hang in the air?
Josh Lyman : Of course not, sir. You're a much bigger cotton candy ass than they are.
President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet : Damn right.
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President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet : Why is a Kundunese life worth less to me than an American life?
Will Bailey : I don't know, sir, but it is.
