I'm flooding this thread with countless West Wing quotes. :wink: Feel free to discuss the prophecies herein...
1. "If you combine the populations of Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, and Australia you'll get a population roughly the same size as the United States. We had 32,000 gun deaths last year. They had 112. You think it's because Americans are more homicidal by nature or do you think it's because those guys have gun control laws?"
2. "If I cook it inside the turkey, is there a chance I could kill my guests? I'm not saying that's necessarily a deal breaker."
3. "It says, 'A well-regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state the government shall not infringe...' The words regulated and militia are in the first sentence! I don't think the framers were thinking of three guys in a Dodge Durango."
4. "Sir, I need you to dig in now. It wasn't a nightmare. You really are the President."
5. Sam: "Have you ever tried to overthrow the government?"
Charlie: "No, sir."
Sam: "What the hell's been stopping you?"
6. "For the first time in history, the largest group of Americans living in poverty are children. One in five children live in the most abject, dangerous, hopeless, back-breaking, gut wrenching poverty you or I could ever imagine. One in five, and they're children. If fidelity to freedom of democracy is our civic religion, then surely the code of our humanity is faithful service to that unwritten commandment that says, we shall give our children better than we ourselves receive. Let me put it this way. I voted against the bill because I didn't want to make it harder for people to buy milk, I stopped some money flowing into your pocket. If that angers you, if that makes you resent me, then I completely respect that. But if you expect anything different from the President of the United States, then you should vote for somebody else."
7. Nurse: "I need to ask you some questions. Do you have any medical conditions?"
Bartlet: "Well, I've been shot."
8. Margaret: "Can I say something, you know, for the future? I can sign the president's name. I have his signature down pretty good."
Leo: "You can sign the president's name?"
Margaret: "Yeah."
Leo: "On a document removing him from power and handing it to someone else?"
Margaret: "Or do you think the White House Council would say that was a bad idea?"
Leo: I think the White House Council would say that's a cout d'tat.... We've got separation of powers, checks and balances, and Margaret vetoeing things and sending them back to the hill."
