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C.J. Don’t start with me, Mr. President. BARTLET I was helping pass the time. I was being entertaining as well as instructive. C.J. I’m back in America now, I have rights. I’m no longer belted down next to the passenger from hell. LEO Welcome back, Mr. President. BARTLET Leo! What’re you doing here? LEO I needed a minute, sir. How was the flight? C.J.It was -- BARTLET Great! C.J.-- gruesome. “If you’ll look out the left side of the cabin, you’ll see the fjords.” Then we got a history of the fjords. Then we got a quiz on the fjords. Do you have any idea how much I would like to dress you up in lederhosen and drop kick you into the fjords right now? |
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RABBI: With Passover on the horizon, millions of Jews will gather round Seder tables, will sing our songs and ask our questions. About the stick that beat the dog that bit the cat that ate the kid. We’ll sing not only to entertain our children but to be reminded by the Haggadah, the simple truth. That violence begets violence. Vengeance is not Jewish. No matter how deep our desire to witness the sufferings of our enemies, we are commanded to relocate our humanity. Vengeance is not Jewish. TOBY You want me to go into the Oval Office and say, “Vengeance is not Jewish”? RABBI Why not? TOBY Well, for one thing, neither is the President! TOBY The Torah doesn’t prohibit capital punishment. RABBI GLASSMAN No. TOBY It says, “An eye for an eye.” RABBI GLASSMAN You know what it also says? It says a rebellious child can be brought to the city gates and stoned to death. It says homosexuality is an abomination and punishable by death. It says men can be polygamous and slavery is acceptable. For all I know, that thinking reflected the best wisdom of its time, but it’s just plain wrong by any modern standard. Society has a right to protect itself, but it doesn’t have a right to be vengeful. It has a right to punish, but it doesn’t have to kill. |
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C.J.Carol. Good. I need biographical information on Simon Cruz. CAROL Is it C-R-U-Z? C.J.I don’t know. CAROL What kind of biographical information? C.J.Gonna need to know how to spell his name for sure. |
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JOEY I want to speak to the President! JOSH[shouting] Hey, Lunatic Lady! Trust me when I tell you that there’s absolutely no way that you are going to see the President! BARTLET[walks up] Hey, Josh. JOSH Hello, Mr. President. Welcome back. BARTLET How are you? JOSH Well, I’d like this day to be over pretty bad. |