The West Wing (TV Series)
In Excelsis Deo (1999)
Rob Lowe: Sam Seaborn
Quotes
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C.J. Cregg : What's your secret service code name?
Sam Seaborn : They just changed it.
C.J. Cregg : I know. What's yours?
Sam Seaborn : Princeton.
C.J. Cregg : Mine's "Flamingo".
Sam Seaborn : That's nice.
C.J. Cregg : No, it's not nice.
Sam Seaborn : Flamingo's a nice-looking bird.
C.J. Cregg : A flamingo is a ridiculous-looking bird.
Sam Seaborn : You're not ridiculous-looking.
C.J. Cregg : I know I'm not ridiculous-looking.
Sam Seaborn : Any way for me to get out of this conversation?
C.J. Cregg : I'm going to talk to someone.
Sam Seaborn : Excellent.
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Leo McGarry : You saw Sam's friend?
Sam Seaborn : How did you know?
Leo McGarry : I had you tailed.
Josh Lyman : You had us tailed?
Leo McGarry : Yes.
Sam Seaborn : Why did you have us tailed?
Leo McGarry : On the off chance that you're as stupid as you look.
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Toby Ziegler : It's not the new millennium, but I'll just let it drop.
Sam Seaborn : It is.
Toby Ziegler : It is not the new millennium. The year 2000 is the last year of the millennium, it's not the first year of the next one.
Sam Seaborn : But the common sensibility, to quote Stephen Jay Gould...
Toby Ziegler : Stephen Jay Gould needs to look at a calendar.
Sam Seaborn : Gould says this is a largely unresolvable issue.
Toby Ziegler : Yes, it's tough to resolve. You have to look at a calendar.
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Sam Seaborn : You've got to ask yourself which is more exciting - watching your car roll over from 99,999 to 100,000 or watching it go from one hundred to a hundred and one.
C.J. Cregg : So technically the millennium is still a year away.
Sam Seaborn : Yeah, but... we've made all these plans.
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Josh Lyman : A man has left himself open to the kind of attack from which men in my business do not recover. Now, if our tactics seem less than civilized, it's because so are our attackers. We don't need your cooperation, Laurie. One of your guys wrote you a check, and the IRS works for me. And anyway, I don't feel like standing here, taking a civics lesson from a hooker.
Sam Seaborn : Josh...