- C.J. Cregg: There were 36 homicides last night. 480 sexual assaults. 3411 robberies. 3685 aggravated assaults, all at gun point. And if anyone thinks those crimes could have been prevented if the victims themselves had been carrying guns, I only remind you that the President of the United States was shot last night while surrounded by the best-trained armed guards in the history of the world.
- [the President neglected a formality transferring executive power before going into surgery]
- Margaret: Can - can I just say something, you know, for the future?
- Leo McGarry: Yeah.
- Margaret: *I* can sign the President's name. I have his signature down pretty good.
- Leo McGarry: You can sign the President's name?
- Margaret: Yeah.
- Leo McGarry: 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 McGarry: I think the White House Counsel would say that's a coup d'etat.
- Margaret: I'd probably end up doing some time for that.
- Leo McGarry: I would think. And what the hell are you doing practicing the President's signature?
- Margaret: It's just for fun.
- Leo McGarry: We've got separation of powers, checks and balances, and Margaret, vetoing things and sending them back to the hill.
- Toby Ziegler: Come join the campaign.
- C.J. Cregg: How much does it pay?
- Toby Ziegler: How much were you making before?
- C.J. Cregg: Five hundred thousand a year.
- Toby Ziegler: This pays six hundred dollars a week.
- C.J. Cregg: So this is less.
- Josh Lyman: [Josh's father has died] At least his friends and neighbors will be spared the all the, you know...
- President Josiah Bartlet: He'd have been doing some bragging right now?
- Josh Lyman: Yeah. Your name wouldn't have come up, by the way. "My son won the Illinois primary."
- President Josiah Bartlet: Tonight, what began at the Commons in Concord, Massachusetts as an alliance of farmers and workers, of cobblers and tinsmiths, of statesmen and students, of mothers and wives, of men and boys, lives two centuries later as America! My name is Josiah Bartlet, and I accept your nomination for the Presidency of the United States!
- C.J. Cregg: Is Jed Bartlet a good man?
- Toby Ziegler: Yes.
- C.J. Cregg: Toby?
- Toby Ziegler: [shifting, pause] Yes.
- C.J. Cregg: Then let's go into the house so I can change my clothes and we'll talk about it.
- Toby Ziegler: C.J.?
- C.J. Cregg: Yeah?
- Toby Ziegler: House is over there.
- C.J. Cregg: Okay.
- Josh Lyman: Well, I feel bathed in the warm embrace of the candidate, Leo.
- Leo McGarry: He's really very easy to like, once you get to know him.
- Josh Lyman: How many people get that far?
- Leo McGarry: Not that many.
- Toby Ziegler: C.J., you fell into the pool there...
- C.J. Cregg: I can't see!
- Toby Ziegler: Yeah, well maybe, uh, kind of, try to feel your way to dry land. Want a hand?
- C.J. Cregg: Shut up. Avert your eyes.
- Toby Ziegler: What?
- C.J. Cregg: I'm climbing out of the pool, my clothes will be clingy, avert you eyes.
- Toby Ziegler: C.J., I really didn't come here to...
- C.J. Cregg: Avert your eyes!
- Toby Ziegler: OK.
- [turning around, as C.J. gets out of the pool, and straightens her dress out]
- C.J. Cregg: Oh, turn around.
- Toby Ziegler: [laughs]
- Secret Service Agent Ron Butterfield: It wasn't your fault.
- Toby Ziegler: Ron...
- Secret Service Agent Ron Butterfield: It wasn't your fault. It wasn't Gina's fault. It wasn't Charlie's fault. It wasn't anybody's fault, Toby. It was an act of madmen. You think a tent was gonna stop 'em? We got the President in the car. We got Zoey in the car. And at 150 yards and five stories up the shooters were down 9.2 seconds after the first shot was fired. I would never let you not let me protect the President. You tell us you don't like something; we figure out something else. It was an act of madmen. Anyway, the Secret Service doesn't comment on procedure.