The West Wing (TV Series)
The Drop In (2001)
John Spencer: Leo McGarry
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Quotes
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Dolores Landingham : You're testing that preposterous contraption again.
Leo McGarry : It's not preposterous, it's not a contraption, and mind your own business.
Dolores Landingham : In my day we knew how to protect ourselves.
Leo McGarry : In your day you could pretty much turn back the Indians with a Daniel Boone musket, couldn't you?
Dolores Landingham : Ah, sarcasm - the grumpy man's wit.
Leo McGarry : Sharpen a pencil, would ya?
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President Josiah Bartlet : Sweden has a 100% literacy rate, Leo. 100%! How do they do that?
Leo McGarry : Well, maybe they don't and they also can't count.
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Donna Moss : Ambassador Marbury was just telling me about how royal men are schooled in the ways of courtship. King George III, for example, sailed his bride up the river Thames to music that was specially composed.
Leo McGarry : Yeah. That was just a few years before we opened up a big can of whoop-ass on him at Yorktown.
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Brit. Ambassador Lord John Marbury : Your assistant, Margaret, is looking positively buxom.
Leo McGarry : [awkwardly] Thank you. I'll tell her.
Margaret : [from outer office] Thank you!
Brit. Ambassador Lord John Marbury : Oh, yes! Well done!
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Leo McGarry : By how much did it miss the target? Colonel?
Colonel Chase : One three seven.
Leo McGarry : We missed it by a hundred and thirty-seven feet.
Colonel Chase : Miles.
Leo McGarry : We missed it by a hundred and thirty-seven miles?
President Josiah Bartlet : When you consider the size of outer space, Leo, that's not so bad.
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Toby Ziegler : Here's what I think.
Leo McGarry : Screw the environmental lobby?
Toby Ziegler : Did I say that? Did I say screw the environmental lobby?
Leo McGarry : You didn't say anything.
Toby Ziegler : That's right, and before I even open my mouth, you decide I'm gonna say screw the environmental lobby?
Leo McGarry : I apologize.
Toby Ziegler : There's an extent to which we've gotta screw the environmental lobby.
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President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Leo, seriously, when they were telling you that on the phone, how stupid did you think you'd sound saying it to me?
Leo McGarry : This project needs money.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : It doesn't work.
Leo McGarry : Neither did several phases of Apollo 11, but Neil Armstrong claims it was a success.
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President Josiah Bartlet : I want to know, when you're pushing me toward the missile shield, it's not 'cause you want me to look strong on defense?
Leo McGarry : I'm not.
President Josiah Bartlet : Don't.
Leo McGarry : I'm pushing you toward the shield 'cause I think it works.
President Josiah Bartlet : Based on what?
Leo McGarry : Confidence. And the understanding that there has been a time in the evolution of everything that works when it didn't work.
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Leo McGarry : Is he still holding you responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire?
Peter Hans : Oh, yes.
Leo McGarry : Welcome to my world.
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Leo McGarry : You're an expert in the field, and I hope I can count on your support.
Brit. Ambassador Lord John Marbury : You may hope for it but you'll not have it.
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President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : I'm victim to my own purity of character.
Leo McGarry : Whatever.