The West Wing (TV Series)

The Wedding (2005)

John Spencer: Leo McGarry

Quotes 

• Matthew Santos : Leo. You guys have to narrow down the board like this eight years ago?

  Leo McGarry : Sure. Six weeks out, only so much in the war chest, you've got to manage your resources.

  Matthew Santos : It feels like we're closing a lot of doors.

  Leo McGarry : Good strategy always does.

• Matthew Santos : You taking over?

  Leo McGarry : No.

  Matthew Santos : Leo, I thought we...

  Leo McGarry : Josh is going to make a lot of strategic decisions over the next few weeks. He's going to sweat them like life and death. And they'll be important, sure, which is why you and me are going to be in on every one of them. But they're meaningless compared to the decision the voters are going to have to make just by listening to you and trying to see if they can connect with the idea of Matt Santos as President. And Josh has nothing to do with that. Goodwin's right: Josh has taken you as far as he can. The rest is up to you.

• Josh Lyman : They want you. It's you, isn't it? Hell, that's who I'd want. You would have known. You would have been in Illinois months ago, right?

  Leo McGarry : Stop it!

  Josh Lyman : Right? You would have figured it out. Where would you have gotten the dough? Come on tell me, where would you have gotten the money?

  Leo McGarry : I wouldn't have gotten the money because I would have been in Illinois. The polls there looked as bad as when we were running against Eisenhower. I would have made the same decision as you. And that is exactly what I told Barry Goodwin and George Montgomery. Look, these are tough calls. It's impossible to know how they're going to turn out. What's important is how you respond when you get it wrong, how you react, what your next move is.

  Josh Lyman : I don't know what my next move is. I've been staring at this damn map all day. I still haven't got a clue. Iowa's vulnerable. I don't know what I was thinking in Wisconsin. We can't take a dime out of Ohio, Florida, Texas... I don't know where to start. They're right: you should take over.

  Leo McGarry : You're all trying to kill me.