- President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: German thinker Max Weber said that politics is the "slow boring of hard boards and that anyone who seeks to do it must risk his own soul". You know what that means?
- Abbey Bartlet: I like how you think that patronizing me is going to make me feel better. It's sweet.
- President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: It means that change comes in excruciating increments for those who want it. You're trying to move mountains. It takes lifetimes. But Zoey Bartlet is the newest Daughter of the American Revolution so I like our chances for the long run.
- Abbey Bartlet: So we're for freedom of speech everywhere but poor countries, where they can have our help, but only if they live up to Clancy Bangert's moral standards? What the hell kind of free world are you running?
- President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: I really don't know, Abbey. The day hasn't started yet.
- Charlie Young: Zoey's being inducted into the DAR, and there's a reception. And Jean-Paul thinks it's unnatural. And he's the son of a Count.
- Will Bailey: Oh, who isn't.
- Zoey Bartlet: Are you going to do what I asked in the email?
- Charlie Young: No.
- Zoey Bartlet: You just refuse.
- Charlie Young: I do. I refuse, respectfully.
- Zoey Bartlet: You can't refuse and be respectful at the same time.
- Charlie Young: Watch me. Ask again.
- Zoey Bartlet: Stop pursuing me.
- Charlie Young: Respectfully, no.
- Zoey Bartlet: Why?
- Charlie Young: 'Cause I'm in love with you, and that's the way it goes.
- Amy Gardner: Am I being hazed? Is this a hazing? 'Cause I'll go along and everything, but I have to see Josh.
- Will Bailey: It's not a hazing. They don't do that.
- [feels in his pocket]
- Will Bailey: Except... yes, you put olives in my jacket again.
- C.J. Cregg: I did, I did do that. But this is on the level.
- Leo McGarry: Why did it happen? Why did the natural dam break?
- Josh Lyman: The natural dam was part of a glacier, and the glacier melted.
- Leo McGarry: The glacier melted?
- Josh Lyman: It did.
- Leo McGarry: Glaciers melt once every 100 million years.This one melted today?
- Josh Lyman: I don't know about geology. I think it's been melting for a long time. But, yeah, 3:45 a.m. was the straw that broke the camel's back.
- Leo McGarry: All right.
- Josh Lyman: Thank you.
- Leo McGarry: You don't wanna stand here and reflect that a glacier melted this morning?
- Josh Lyman: Well, I would, Leo but a glacier melted this morning. So at this point, Americans are simply trying to outrun it.