- C.J. Cregg: I'm sorry to ask, but did David ever mention anything about another kind of space shuttle?
- Toby Ziegler: Another kind of space shuttle?
- C.J. Cregg: A non-civilian shuttle.
- Toby Ziegler: A military shuttle?
- C.J. Cregg: Did he ever mention anything about anything like that?
- Toby Ziegler: Did he ever commit a felonious breach of national security?
- C.J. Cregg: Hints, intimations, a brotherly confidence?
- Toby Ziegler: Brotherly confidence by definition...?
- C.J. Cregg: Showing off, sibling one-upmanship. "Look what I know."
- Toby Ziegler: An occasional cryptic hint; when he wanted to lord it over me.
- C.J. Cregg: Like actually being an astronaut wasn't enough.
- Toby Ziegler: Thank you so much.
- C.J. Cregg: If he had been up in that space station, and we didn't send such a vehicle up after him...
- Toby Ziegler: To send it reveals it.
- C.J. Cregg: Would he have been okay about sacrificing himself for national security?
- Toby Ziegler: He would have insisted on it.
- Toby Ziegler: But don't ask me what I would have insisted on.
- Toby Ziegler: They're about as spontaneous as... I actually can't think of anything as unspontaneous as a Republican National Convention.
- Leo McGarry: Four nights of Swiss-watch precision. We get a pie fight.
- President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: Werner Von Braun's autobiography was titled 'I Aim for the Stars.' Mort Sahl joked, he should have added 'Only Sometimes I Hit London'.
- President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: [speaking about the Democratic convention] We need someone strong enough to organize the damn thing.
- Leo McGarry: [resignedly] Wonder who we can get?
- President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: If it helps, it gives me no pleasure dumping this damn thing on you.
- Leo McGarry: There's the pleasure of not having to do it yourself.
- President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: Which is not inconsiderable.