The West Wing (TV Series)
The War at Home (2001)
Martin Sheen: President Josiah Bartlet
Quotes
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Abbey Bartlet : We had a deal!
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Yes, we had a deal.
Abbey Bartlet : Yes, Jed. Look at me! Do you get that you have M.S.?
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Abbey...
Abbey Bartlet : Do you get that your own immune system is shredding your brain? And I can't tell you why. Do you have any idea how good a doctor I am and that I can't tell you why?
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : I've had one episode in two years.
Abbey Bartlet : Yes, but relapsing-remitting M.S. can turn into secondary-progressive M.S. oftentimes ten years after the initial diagnosis which is exactly where we'll be in two years! Do you know what that's going to look like if it happens?
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President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : We weren't prepared for someone to try and outfox us with a stratagem so sophisticated, it's an entire generation beyond "Hey, look! Your shoelaces are untied!"? Is that how I just lost nine guys to a damn street gang with a ham radio? They lured us there so that they could kill nine American soldiers!
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Mickey Troop : Mr. President, for the kind of victory Americans are used to, for the kind of victory Americans demand from a war, you need a ten-to-one ratio.
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Mickey Troop : We need to put 200 to 300,000 men into a jungle war, and I think we'd lose as many as half.
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President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : You really gotta ask yourself what's the point of being a superpower anymore.
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President Josiah Bartlet : We didn't get a chance to talk again last night.
Abbey Bartlet : I don't think we should.
President Josiah Bartlet : Talk?
Abbey Bartlet : No.
President Josiah Bartlet : Ever?
Abbey Bartlet : Oh, if wishing made it so, Jed.
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President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : They won't let me smoke inside, but you can pee in Leo's closet?
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President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : I tell you something, Leo, after heroin and cocaine, tobacco is next.
Leo McGarry : Great. Another criminal empire we can give birth to. There's be speakeasies all over Chicago where you can get smuggled cartons of Marlboro Lights.
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President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : [rhetorically] You really gotta ask yourself, "What's the point in being a superpower anymore?"
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President Josiah Bartlet : What are you, my Zen master? Can I be in charge of my own mind?