The West Wing (TV Series)
The Leadership Breakfast (2001)
Rob Lowe: Sam Seaborn
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Quotes
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Josh Lyman : Could you possibly get us some dried leaves?
Donna Moss : Yeah, I'll just run out to the forest and be right back.
Donna Moss : [Donna leaves room]
Sam Seaborn : You know what?
Josh Lyman : You think she was being sarcastic?
Sam Seaborn : Yeah. I don't think she's getting the leaves.
Josh Lyman : You know what we could use?
Sam Seaborn : Newspaper.
Josh Lyman : See, this is what I'm talking about. This is teamwork.
Sam Seaborn : It really is.
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President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Who was the idiot who set off the smoke alarm last night?
Josh Lyman : Well, it sounds a lot like you're talking about Sam, Mr. President.
Sam Seaborn : Were you inconvenienced, sir?
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : They had me on the Truman balcony for 6 minutes in my underwear.
Sam Seaborn : Was it cold?
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : In January? No. Why do you ask?
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Sam Seaborn : In fact we were talking about the stability of former Soviet republics and their fear of Islamic extremism and I have to say that I made some very scholarly points regarding the remaining nuclear weapons in Kyrgyzstan and I have to believe...
Josh Lyman : Kazakhstan.
Sam Seaborn : Hmm?
Josh Lyman : The nuclear weapons are in Kazakhstan.
Sam Seaborn : I said Kyrgyzstan?
Josh Lyman : Yeah.
Sam Seaborn : Yeah, well, Kyrgyzstan has no nuclear weapons.
Josh Lyman : No.
Sam Seaborn : Kazakhstan's a country four times the size of Texas and has a sizable number of former Russian missile silos.
Josh Lyman : Yeah.
Sam Seaborn : Kyrgyzstan's on the side of a hill near China and has mostly nomads and sheep.
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Donna Moss : You're not using lighter fluid or anything, are you?
Josh Lyman : No, no flammable liquids of any kind to start a fire, ever.
Sam Seaborn : Found it.
Josh Lyman : What?
Sam Seaborn : Kerosene.
Donna Moss : Josh...
Josh Lyman : Go.
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Josh Lyman : How's this for a phrase? "You can lay down in front of the train or you can get on board."
Sam Seaborn : That's a really bad phrase.
Josh Lyman : Is it better if it's "You can get on board the train or you can lay down in front of it"?
Sam Seaborn : No. It's really bad either way.