The West Wing (TV Series)

Impact Winter (2004)

John Spencer: Leo McGarry

Quotes 

• Leo McGarry : I just looked at the tape.

  Josh Lyman : Vinick's announcement? Makes you want to cry like a little girl, doesn't it?

  Leo McGarry : It's a tough primary for him. I wouldn't tear my shirt yet.

  Josh Lyman : Russell offered me campaign manager.

  Leo McGarry : Really?

  Josh Lyman : Turned him down. Hoynes asked too.

  Leo McGarry : Popular. You change your cologne or something?

  Josh Lyman : Think Hoynes could win?

  Leo McGarry : With Baker out? Russell's got a huge financial advantage. Sitting VP, he's going to raise a lot more money and he's in a position to offer a lot more favors.

  Josh Lyman : Hoynes is a guy without a job.

  Leo McGarry : That said, Hoynes is much more experienced in the job that Bob Russell holds, he was elected senator of a huge, complicated, and usually Republican state and Russell got elected representative of a district the size of my thumb.

  Josh Lyman : Hoynes is smarter than Russell. He'll kick his ass in the debates.

  Leo McGarry : And he's got more foreign policy experience. It could happen. But you gotta want to work for him and you gotta want him to win. You want that?

  Josh Lyman : I want to get Jeb Bartlet a third term.

  Leo McGarry : Yeah.

  Josh Lyman : What happened to the good old days when a couple of hacks with cigars chose the nominee in a smoke-filled back room?

  Leo McGarry : They didn't do so bad, did they? Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower.

  Josh Lyman : We need a back room.

  Leo McGarry : Well, we just about outlawed smoking and at this point I'm not allowed to even look at a cigar. But we're it. You and me. This is the back room.

• Josh Lyman : [Josh and Leo converge while walking through a doorway, ducking under Christmas greenery that maintenance staff are hanging up]  Season's greetings.

  Leo McGarry : You pick your dream candidate yet?

  Josh Lyman : I can't pick up and leave the White House to go run a campaign for some dark horse I pulled out of a cornfield.

  Leo McGarry : I did.

• Josh Lyman : The president can't move his legs. NASA's wondering if the next Ice Age starts on Tuesday. I gotta stay here, finish what I started.

  Leo McGarry : [Shaking his head and starting to walk away]  It doesn't finish, Josh. It keeps going.