The West Wing (TV Series)
Lord John Marbury (2000)
Martin Sheen: President Josiah Bartlet
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Quotes
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Leo McGarry : [on Lord John Marbury] He thinks I'm the butler.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : For the first couple of weeks, so did I.
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Leo McGarry : [on Marbury] You're really gonna let him loose in the White House, where there's liquor and women?
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : We can hide the women. But the man deserves a drink
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President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : All I'm trying to do right now? I'm trying to avoid making eye contact with the CIA Director.
George Rollie : Mr. President...
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Three hundred thousand troops? I can't move my motorcade from K Street to Connecticut without it showing up on a weather satellite!
George Rollie : We dropped the ball, sir.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Pick it up again - would you please?
George Rollie : Yes, sir.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Any chance this is an exercise?
Admiral Percy Fitzwallace : No, sir.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : A threat gesture?
Admiral Percy Fitzwallace : Possibly.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Any nuclear activity?
Admiral Percy Fitzwallace : We don't know, sir.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Oh, I wouldn't worry about that. That's probably not important information.
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[Charlie seeks and obtains the President's permission to date his daughter]
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Just remember these two things: she's nineteen years old, and the 82nd Airborne works for me.
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Lord John Marbury : You're all frightened... as well you should be. Not since the Protestant-Catholic wars in the 16th Century has Western society known anything remotely comparable to the subcontinent's religious malevolence. Uh, to a lesser observer, the intensity of the emotional frenzy is so illogical as to border on mass psychosis. but, as has been said by kings and queens, I am not a lesser observer.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : John, there's a quote from Revelations I...
Lord John Marbury : [Cutting Bartlet off mid-sentence] "And I looked and I beheld a pale horse, and the name that sat on him was Death and, Hell followed with him."
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President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : My daughter asked you out?
Charlie Young : Yes, sir.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : I should've locked her in the dungeon.
Charlie Young : I don't think you've got one, sir.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : I could've built one.
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President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : He
[Charlie]
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : wants to go out with Zoey.
[Leo cracks a huge smirk]
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Shut up.
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Charlie Young : Mr. President?
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : I'll take the Indian ambassador in the Oval Office.
Charlie Young : Yes, sir.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : And then if you could just ask the Secret Service to step in and kill me, please.
Charlie Young : Yes, sir.
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President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Toby, how much do you know about India and Pakistan?
Toby Ziegler : I know that any war between these two countries that begins with conventional weapons isn't going to end that way.
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Indian ambassador : You look well, Mr. President.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : I was looking a lot better before your country breached about 14 ceasefire conditions without so much as a phone call.