- [the President's daughter chafes at her Secret Service protection]
- President Josiah Bartlet: My getting killed would be bad enough, but that is not the nightmare scenario. The nightmare scenario, sweetheart, is *you* getting kidnapped. You go out to a bar or a party in some club and you get up to go to the restroom and somebody comes from behind and puts their hand across your mouth and whisks you out the back door. You're so petrified you don't even notice the bodies of a few Secret Service agents lying on the ground with bullet holes in their heads. Then you're whisked away in a car. It's a big party with lots of noise and lots of people coming and going, and it's a half hour before someone says, "Hey, where's Zoey?" Another fifteen minutes before the first phone call. It's another hour and a half before anyone even *thinks* to shut down all the airports. Now we're off to the races. You're tied to a chair in a cargo shack somewhere in the middle of Uganda and I am told that I have 72 hours to get Israel to free 460 terrorist prisoners. So I'm on the phone pleading with Be Yabin and he's saying: "I'm sorry, Mr. President, but Israel simply does not negotiate with terrorists, period. It's the only way we can survive." So now we got a new problem because this country no longer has a Commander-in-chief, it has a father who's out of his mind because his little girl is in a shack somewhere in Uganda with a gun to her head. Do you get it?
- Zoey Bartlet: Yes.
- [a cadre of Secret Service Agents just arrested the Frat boys in the Bar]
- Charlie Young: Now I'm having a good time.
- Josh Lyman: The President's daughter, Chief of Staff's daughter, a Georgetown bar and Sam. What could possibly go wrong?
- Congressman Gladman: I thought we were here to talk about the census.
- Josh Lyman: We are. The White House just wanted to take this opportunity to point out that you are criminals and despots.
- [Donna and Josh are discussing what should be done with the budget surplus]
- Donna Moss: What's wrong with me getting my money back?
- Josh Lyman: You won't spend it right.
- Donna Moss: What do you mean?
- Josh Lyman: Let's say your cut of the surplus is $700. I want to take your money, combine it with everybody else's money and use it to pay down the debt and further endow Social Security. What do you want to do with it?
- Donna Moss: Buy a DVD player.
- Josh Lyman: See?
- Donna Moss: But my $700 is helping employ the people who manufacture and sell DVD players, not to mention the people who manufacture and sell DVDs. It's the natural evolution of a market economy.
- Josh Lyman: The problem is the DVD player you buy might be made in Japan.
- Donna Moss: I'll buy an American one.
- Josh Lyman: We don't trust you.
- Donna Moss: Why not?
- Josh Lyman: We're Democrats.
- Donna Moss: I want my money back.
- Josh Lyman: You shouldn't have voted for us.