- Donna Moss: A lot of them, their judges spoke at their sentencing about the harshness of what they had to impose... Scrutinize away. You tell me? Do we toss out Daisy Aimes, mother of three... had a boyfriend who stored a kilo in her closet. She's done eight years and is facing eleven more. That's longer than rapists and child molestors get... I don't see a list anymore. These are people.
- President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: [trying to pick a necktie] Which one of these screams "dominance?"
- Abbey Bartlet: Do I get to wear it afterwards?
- President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: No comment.
- Josh Lyman: If you wanna throw light on how minimums and guidelines conspire to produce disproportionate punishments...
- President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: ... and worse: leave judges impotent! Our judicial system is predicated on an individual's right to a fair trial. But how individual is that process, if a 258 box grid seales your fate before you ever step foot in front of a judge, a FEDERAL judge, that my office has invested considerable effort in selecting, who is then constrained from exercising basic common sense, while twenty-nine year old prosecutors, who make their bones on their win-loss record hold the only discretion in the whole system?
- Charlie Young: C.J., with the press - could you ever trust a reporter?
- C.J. Cregg: Is this the beginning of a joke?