Martin Sheen credited as playing...
President Josiah Bartlet
- President Josiah Bartlet: [practicing for a debate] I don't support racial profiling.
- Sam Seaborn: [playing the part of a debate challenger] Your nominee for Attorney General did. Can you tell us why you nominated him?
- President Josiah Bartlet: Why?
- Sam Seaborn: Yes.
- President Josiah Bartlet: 'Cause bite me, that's why.
- C.J. Cregg: It's a legitimate question.
- President Josiah Bartlet: It's been almost four years, Sam. How long do you want to say "I told you so?"
- Josh Lyman: He wasn't saying "I told you so," sir. We need an answer on Rooker.
- President Josiah Bartlet: What's wrong with "Bite me"?
- Josh Lyman: I think we'd lose.
- Toby Ziegler: Not in New Jersey.
- President Josiah Bartlet: I agreed to be locked up with you people for forty-eight hours. How much time do I have left?
- Leo McGarry: Forty-seven hours, forty-one minutes.
- President Josiah Bartlet: [to Leo] Honey, if we're going to have this fight, can we not do it front of the Joint Chiefs? It just scares the Hell out of them.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Apparently, eight Israeli Thunder fighters - these are also known as American-made Boeing F-15E Strike Eagles - have hit two terrorist bases in the north and south of Qumar, and while no Qumari government personnel or institutions were destroyed, Qumar, of course, considers an attack on its soil to be an act of war. So we are, as always, one bad bottle of tequila away from all-out war in West Asia.
- [pauses, turns to Sam]
- President Josiah Bartlet: Would you like to get this one, or shall I?
- Sam Seaborn: Why don't you get this one, and I'll get... the next one.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Okay.