Martin Sheen credited as playing...
President Josiah Bartlet
- Leo McGarry: Say it out loud. Say it to me.
- President Josiah Bartlet: This is more important than re-election. I want to speak now.
- Leo McGarry: Now we're in business.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Can we get this god-forsaken event over with so I can get back to presiding over a civilization gone to hell in a hand cart?
- Mrs. Landingham: Nice talk for a president.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Leave me alone.
- Mrs. Landingham: You know what this is, don't you, sir?
- President Josiah Bartlet: What what is?
- Mrs. Landingham: Your mood, sir.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Nothing wrong with my mood.
- Mrs. Landingham: It's your diet.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Will you get off me with that?
- Mrs. Landingham: You don't get enough roughage in your diet. You know I'm right about that.
- President Josiah Bartlet: I know I'd like to beat you senseless with a head of cabbage. I know that for damn sure.
- President Josiah Bartlet: We've heard it all before, Leo. You drive me to the political safe ground. It's not true.
- Leo McGarry: I know it's not true.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Good.
- Leo McGarry: You drive me there.
- President Josiah Bartlet: What the hell did you say?
- Leo McGarry: We're stuck in neutral because that's where you tell me to stay.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Is Toby on his way?
- Charlie Young: Yes, sir.
- President Josiah Bartlet: C.J.?
- Charlie Young: Yes, sir.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Why aren't they here right now?
- Charlie Young: They didn't know that it was raining, sir.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Nothing like surrounding yourself with the best and the brightest, Charlie.
- President Josiah Bartlet: You didn't know it was raining?
- Toby Ziegler: To our credit, sir, we knew it was raining once it started to rain.
- [Prior to the president's speech at the American Association of Trout Fishermen convention]
- Leo McGarry: Are you going to concentrate on this now, or is your head going to be on changing the nature of democracy?
- President Josiah Bartlet: No, I'm definitely going to be thinking about the trout fishermen, Leo, 'cause that's where my focus should be.