Bradley Whitford credited as playing...
Josh Lyman
- Louise Thornton: Rough day?
- Josh Lyman: Nuh, typical.
- Louise Thornton: You love it, you live for it, you were born to do it, I'm the same way. Everybody tells me to get a life, although I don't know why... I find life to be terribly overrated. It's actually quite boring when it's not disappointing. Say what you will about what we do, but boring it is not.
- Josh Lyman: I know that you can parlay the Santos win into a doubling of your fee.
- Louise Thornton: Tripling, if it figures into your memoirs.
- Josh Lyman: Nothing is going to top this. Everything else's going to be a letdown.
- Louise Thornton: Letdowns that make me semi-rich, that's a tradeoff I'm willing to endure.
- Josh Lyman: You don't care about money.
- Louise Thornton: Who doesn't?
- Josh Lyman: You!
- Louise Thornton: Not as such.
- Josh Lyman: As what?
- Louise Thornton: Scorekeeping. Quantitative evidence that I'm smarter than you. Not *you*.
- Josh Lyman: Who?
- Louise Thornton: Everybody else.
- Josh Lyman: Come on board as communications director.
- Louise Thornton: Thank you, but no.
- Josh Lyman: Finish what you started.
- Louise Thornton: I'm not interested in governing.
- Josh Lyman: Campaigning's about promise; governing's about achievement. It's, it's tougher and a lot less romantic, but it's not boring. I already think you're smarter than everyone, that's why I want you down the hall. Come on, it's not like getting a life!
- Louise Thornton: That's true, look at you.