Stockard Channing credited as playing...
Abbey Bartlet
- [the President and the First Lady can finally have sex after a long time; they are in the Oval office]
- Abbey Bartlet: BP 120 over 80.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Who cares? It's been 14 weeks. Do these curtains close?
- Abbey Bartlet: Not here, Jed.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Yes. You're right... where?
- Abbey Bartlet: How about our bedroom?
- President Josiah Bartlet: New Hampshire is an hour and a half by plane. I don't have that kind of time.
- Abbey Bartlet: How about our bedroom in the residence?
- President Josiah Bartlet: Yes. We have a bedroom right here in the building. That was so smart.
- Abbey Bartlet: Yes.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Let's go.
- Abbey Bartlet: Jed.
- President Josiah Bartlet: What?
- Abbey Bartlet: Korea? Plutonium?
- President Josiah Bartlet: Oh God... I hate plutonium.
- President Josiah Bartlet: You know what I did, just then, that was stupid? I minimized the importance of the statue that was dedicated to Nellie Bly, an extraordinary woman to whom we all owe a great deal.
- Abbey Bartlet: You don't know who she is, do you?
- President Josiah Bartlet: [to himself] This isn't happening to me.
- Abbey Bartlet: She pioneered investigative journalism.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Then she's the one I want to beat the crap out of.
- Abbey Bartlet: She risked her life by having herself committed to a mental institution for ten days so she could write about it. She changed entirely the way we treat the mentally ill in this country.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Yes. Abigail...
- Abbey Bartlet: In 1890, she traveled around the world in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds, besting by more than one week, Jules Verne's 80 days.
- President Josiah Bartlet: She sounds like an incredible woman, Abbey. I'm particularly impressed that she beat a fictional record. If she goes down 21,000 leagues under the sea, I'll name a damn school after her! Let's have sex.
- Abbey Bartlet: When it comes to historical figures being memorialized in this country, women have been largely overlooked. Nellie Bly is just the tip of the iceberg.
- President Josiah Bartlet: I couldn't possibly hear about the rest of the iceberg right now.
- Abbey Bartlet: Elizabeth Blackwell was the first American woman to be awarded an MD. She founded the Women's Medical College...
- President Josiah Bartlet: Keep talking. I'm just gonna sit here and think about plutonium and the things I can do with it.
- Abbey Bartlet: Just give him a message for me, would you?
- Charlie Young: Sure.
- Abbey Bartlet: You'll want to write this down.
- Charlie Young: Yes, ma'am.
- Abbey Bartlet: Your blood pressure is 120/80.
- Charlie Young: How did you know that, ma'am?
- Abbey Bartlet: I'm saying his blood pressure.
- Charlie Young: Ah... is 120/80.
- Abbey Bartlet: Yeah. Your EKG shows a good sinus rhythm.
- Charlie Young: Okay.
- Abbey Bartlet: No evidence of ischemic changes.
- Charlie Young: How are we spelling...?
- Abbey Bartlet: Doesn't matter. Your electrolytes and metabolic panels are within normal limits. Chest x-ray is clear, and prostate screens are fine.
- Charlie Young: Okay.
- Abbey Bartlet: So, we can have sex now.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Take your clothes off.
- Abbey Bartlet: Whatever happened to romance? A couple of cocktails, Mel Torme...
- President Josiah Bartlet: Get 'em off.
- Abbey Bartlet: Okay, I'm going to the bathroom.
- President Josiah Bartlet: By the way, sweet knees: The Statue of Liberty.
- Abbey Bartlet: Get upstairs.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Right there at the front door to the country.
- Abbey Bartlet: Get upstairs.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Like a lawn jockey.