That's right! More of my favorite West Wing quotes!!! All of these are either Bartlet quotes, or involve Bartlet.
1. Bartlet: "Jokes are part of my folksy charm. . . . It's at the heart of my popularity."
President's Doctor: "Don't you have a job approval rating of like 3% or something?"
Bartlet: "Oh we're having some difficulty getting the word out."
2. ". . .you see how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them to do."
3. "When I think of all the work you put in to get me to run, when I think of all the work you did to get me elected... I could pummel your ass with a baseball bat."
4. "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. 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'm told that I have 72 hours to get Israel to free 460 terrorist prisoners. So I'm on the phone pleading with Benjamin 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've 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?"
5. "Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong and get used to it."
6. "We might do that, Leo. A hundred million Republicans, we might hire as many as two of 'em."
7. "I inherited the war on drugs from a President, who inherited it from a President, who inherited it from a President before that. I'm not one hundred percent sure who we're fighting, but I know we're not winning. Ten years ago, we spent five billion dollars fighting drugs, and we did such a good job that last year, we spent sixteen billion. Sixty percent of federal prisoners are in jail on drug charges as opposed to two and a half percent that are there for violent crime. We imprison a higher percentage of our citizens than Russia did under communism, and South Africa under apartheid. Somewhere between fifty and eight-five percent of the prison population has a drug or alcohol abuse problem. We've tried just say no; I don't think it's gonna work."
8. "What plaid flannel-wearing, cheese-eating, yahoo of a milkman governor signed that idiot bill into state law? It was me, wasn't it?"
9. "We don't need martyrs, we need heroes. A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it."
10. "This is the White House. If we only screw up twice before breakfast, it was a very good morning."
Ahh, philosophical and laughable at the same time...
