- Margaret Hooper: [the Surgeon General is waiting with Margaret outside Leo's office] Red meat has been found to cause cancer in white rats. Maraschino cherries have been found to cause cancer in white rats. Cellular phones have been found to cause cancer in white rats. Has anyone examined the possibility that cancer might be hereditary in white rats?
- Surgeon General Millicent Griffith: Let me tell you something, I'm not a hundred percent sure we've ruled that out.
- President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: [to Ellie] The only thing you ever had to do to make me happy was come home at the end of the day.
- Donna Moss: In a free society you don't need a reason to make something legal. You need a reason to make something illegal.
- President Josiah Bartlet: You know, we're coming up to the good part.
- Ellie Bartlet: Dad, people are trying to watch the movie.
- President Josiah Bartlet: You want to bet me your tuition no one in this room is going to shush me?
- President Josiah Bartlet: Charlie, would you arrange for my middle daughter to come see me at her earliest possible convenience?
- Charlie Young: Yes, sir.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Ah, screw her convenience. Get her ass down here.
- Toby Ziegler: I bring you here. And we sit and we have coffee and we have danish, and hope that calmer, and dare I say, prettier heads prevail.
- Andrea Wyatt: Oh, I miss patronizing, sexist Toby.
- Toby Ziegler: I was referring to myself.
- C.J. Cregg: Leo wants me to show her support.
- Josh Lyman: Yeah.
- C.J. Cregg: Josh?
- Josh Lyman: Yeah.
- C.J. Cregg: While I'm showing her support, what are you showing her?
- Josh Lyman: The door.
- Surgeon General Millicent Griffith: You eat like you're still in college.
- Josh Lyman: I was in great shape in college.
- Surgeon General Millicent Griffith: You were 19 in college: You could eat Tupperware and your system would deal with it.
- Surgeon General Millicent Griffith: As a doctor, I have an obligation to tell the truth. Come to think of it, as a person I have that obligation as well.
- President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: Retaliatory tariffs on steel imports are a disaster. Anyone wants to check my math they're more than welcome to. Anybody wants to shove the Golden Gate Bridge up Japan's ass they're more than welcome to do that too.