The West Wing (TV Series)

Ways and Means (2001)

Mark Feuerstein: Clifford Calley

Quotes 

• Donna Moss : Why are you a Republican?

  Clifford Calley : Because I hate poor people. I hate them, Donna. They're all so poor, and many of 'em talk funny, and don't have proper table manners... my father slaved away at the Fortune 500 company he inherited so that I could go to Choate, Brown and Harvard and see that this country isn't overrun by poor people and lesbians. No... I'm Republican because I believe in smaller government. This country was founded on the principle of freedom, and freedom stands opposed to constraints, and the bigger the government, the more the constraints.