The West Wing (TV Series)

The State Dinner (1999)

Allison Janney: C.J. Cregg

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Quotes 

• C.J. Cregg : I spoke to Peggy about the vermeil - you might get a few questions.

  Abbey Bartlet : I'm not embarrassed by the vermeil. It's not as if we spent new money on it.

  C.J. Cregg : Yes, but its history...

  Abbey Bartlet : It's our history. Better or worse, it's our history. We're not going to lock it in the basement or brush it with a new coat of paint. It's our history.

  C.J. Cregg : Well, good answer.

  Abbey Bartlet : Well, the truth'll do it almost every time.

• C.J. Cregg : When you flirt with me, are you doing it to get a story?

  Danny Concannon : No.

  C.J. Cregg : Why are you doing it?

  Danny Concannon : I'm doing it to flirt with you.

• [after the briefing about a state dinner] 

  C.J. Cregg : Man alive, do I love it when "In Style" magazine is issued press credentials.

  Josh Lyman : Yeah.

  C.J. Cregg : "Mirabella" needed to know what wine was being served with the fish course. So it's a good thing I went to school for 22 years.

  Josh Lyman : What wine are we...?

  C.J. Cregg : It's wine, you'll drink it.

• C.J. Cregg : You're a rabble rouser, you know that? You rouse rabbles.

  Danny Concannon : Hey!

  C.J. Cregg : I went and looked at your big Vermeil demonstration. Six people in Lafayette Park with oak tag and magic markers.

  Danny Concannon : I didn't say it was Selma, Alabama, or anything.

  C.J. Cregg : Six people! Six pathetic people protesting on a Friday and you just lent their weak and feeble voices a megaphone. What do you call that?

  Danny Concannon : A job well done.