01UndatedToby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
02UndatedMrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning?" "The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you?" "Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham." "What age would that be, Toby?""Late twenties?" "Atta boy.Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
03UndatedI love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, Giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy: I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
04UndatedToby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right?Sam: No.Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
05UndatedMargaret: Can I - can I just say something for the future?Leo: Yeah.Margaret: I can sign the President's name. I have his signature down pretty good.Leo: You can sign the President's name?Margaret: Yeah.Leo: On a document removing him from power and handing it to someone else?Margaret: Yeah! Or... do you think the White House Counsel would say that was a bad idea?Leo: I think the White House Counsel would say it was a coup d'etat!Margaret: Well. I'd probably end up doing some time for that.Leo: I would think. And what the hell were you doing practicing the President's signature?Margaret: It was just for fun.Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
06UndatedI don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
07UndatedPresident Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
08UndatedIf you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
09UndatedI like how you call homosexuality an abomination.""I don't say homosexuality's an abomination, Mr. President, the bible does.""Yes it does. Leviticus-""18:22""Chapter in verse. I wanted to ask you a couple questions while I had you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be? While thinking about that can I ask another? My chief of staff, Leo Mcgary,insists on working on the sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself or is it ok to call the police? Here's one that's really important, cause we've got a lot of sports fans in this town. Touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean, Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Red Skins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads?Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
10UndatedJosh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it?Toby: God bless America.Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
12UndatedOratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place.Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
13UndatedPresidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. FitzwallaceAaron Sorkin / quote ↗
14UndatedIn that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything -- to impress women.(Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
16UndatedPresident Josiah Bartlet: Good. I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.Dr. Jenna Jacobs: I don't say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does.President Josiah Bartlet: Yes, it does. Leviticus.Dr. Jenna Jacobs: 18:22.President Josiah Bartlet: Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I had you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be? While thinking about that, can I ask another? My Chief of Staff Leo McGarry insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or is it okay to call the police? Here's one that's really important 'cause we've got a lot of sports fans in this town: Touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? Think about those questions, would you? One last thing: While you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the Ignorant Tight-Ass Club, in this building, when the President stands, nobody sits.Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
17UndatedGovernment should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
18UndatedDONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
19UndatedBy and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not.(Joshua Malina, Sports Night)Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
20UndatedThere (is) order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge.Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
21UndatedIt's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
22UndatedWe live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗
23UndatedI was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to me. -- SamAaron Sorkin / quote ↗
24UndatedPRESIDENT BARTLETT: "See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.Aaron Sorkin / quote ↗