Funeral for a Friend
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tzikehWhen you see this on your friends list, quote Leo McGarry.
On Big Block of Cheese Day: "I am making a mental list of those who are snickering, and even as I speak I'm preparing appropriate retribution."
About the staff: "If we're gonna walk into walls, I want us running into 'em full speed."
About Mallory: "I take my daughter to a seafood place, the first thing she does is name all the lobsters in the tank, so I can't eat them."
About a NASA snafu: "My generation never got the future it was promised... Thirty-five years later, cars, air travel is exactly the same. We don't even have the Concorde anymore. Technology stopped...Where's my jet pack, my colonies on the Moon?"
To Zoey, answering her question about Jed's strange interpretations of obscure rules of government: "Because your father is a demented, demented man."
Upon seeing Josh and Amy acting like three-year-olds: "Oh, God help me, some days."
On asking the staff to move from the center to the true left: "[W]e’re gonna lose some of these battles, and we might even lose the White House, but we’re not gonna be threatened by issues. We’re gonna put them front and centre. We’re gonna raise the level of public debate in this country, and let that be our legacy."
In response to one of Margaret's astoundingly off-kilter monologues: "Oh Margaret! Margaret! I'm sorry. I'm gonna have to... I hung in there as long as I could, but you long since passed the point when I stopped caring. If you're curious, it was right around raisin muffin."
To Nancy McNally, on yet another military crisis: "One day, I'm gonna get called to the Situation Room, and it's gonna be good news. We'll have discovered buried treasure, or it turns out there's life on Andromeda, and they think we're doing a good job. When's that day gonna come, Nancy? When's that gonna happen?"
In response to Jed and Abbey mocking Leo's ex-wife's new husband-to-be, and choosing to skip the wedding and spend the weekend with him instead: "You two are evil."
To Jed: "Well, nothing says Christmas like animal fables in iambic verse."
To Jed: "Because I'm tired of it. Year, after year, after year, after year, having to choose between the lesser of who cares. Of trying to get myself excited about a candidate who can speak in complete sentences. Of setting the bar so low I can hardly look at it. They say a good man can't get elected. Well, I don't believe that."
To Jed: "There's no such thing as too smart. There's nothing you can do that's not gonna make me proud of you. Eat 'em up. Game on."
To Jed: "When I was lying on my face in the motel parking lot, you were the one I called."
And:
About Jed: "The President was at the debate site walking the stage. A podium is a holy place for him. He makes it his own, like it's an extension of his body. You ever see a pitcher work the mound so the dirt does exactly what his feet want it to do? That's the President. He sees it as a genuine opportunity to change minds, also as his best way of contributing to the team. He likes teams. I love him so much."
On Big Block of Cheese Day: "I am making a mental list of those who are snickering, and even as I speak I'm preparing appropriate retribution."
About the staff: "If we're gonna walk into walls, I want us running into 'em full speed."
About Mallory: "I take my daughter to a seafood place, the first thing she does is name all the lobsters in the tank, so I can't eat them."
About a NASA snafu: "My generation never got the future it was promised... Thirty-five years later, cars, air travel is exactly the same. We don't even have the Concorde anymore. Technology stopped...Where's my jet pack, my colonies on the Moon?"
To Zoey, answering her question about Jed's strange interpretations of obscure rules of government: "Because your father is a demented, demented man."
Upon seeing Josh and Amy acting like three-year-olds: "Oh, God help me, some days."
On asking the staff to move from the center to the true left: "[W]e’re gonna lose some of these battles, and we might even lose the White House, but we’re not gonna be threatened by issues. We’re gonna put them front and centre. We’re gonna raise the level of public debate in this country, and let that be our legacy."
In response to one of Margaret's astoundingly off-kilter monologues: "Oh Margaret! Margaret! I'm sorry. I'm gonna have to... I hung in there as long as I could, but you long since passed the point when I stopped caring. If you're curious, it was right around raisin muffin."
To Nancy McNally, on yet another military crisis: "One day, I'm gonna get called to the Situation Room, and it's gonna be good news. We'll have discovered buried treasure, or it turns out there's life on Andromeda, and they think we're doing a good job. When's that day gonna come, Nancy? When's that gonna happen?"
In response to Jed and Abbey mocking Leo's ex-wife's new husband-to-be, and choosing to skip the wedding and spend the weekend with him instead: "You two are evil."
To Jed: "Well, nothing says Christmas like animal fables in iambic verse."
To Jed: "Because I'm tired of it. Year, after year, after year, after year, having to choose between the lesser of who cares. Of trying to get myself excited about a candidate who can speak in complete sentences. Of setting the bar so low I can hardly look at it. They say a good man can't get elected. Well, I don't believe that."
To Jed: "There's no such thing as too smart. There's nothing you can do that's not gonna make me proud of you. Eat 'em up. Game on."
To Jed: "When I was lying on my face in the motel parking lot, you were the one I called."
And:
About Jed: "The President was at the debate site walking the stage. A podium is a holy place for him. He makes it his own, like it's an extension of his body. You ever see a pitcher work the mound so the dirt does exactly what his feet want it to do? That's the President. He sees it as a genuine opportunity to change minds, also as his best way of contributing to the team. He likes teams. I love him so much."
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Date: 2006-04-12 04:55 am (UTC)I think this is how it goes...
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Date: 2006-04-12 04:08 am (UTC)This may be my favorite Leo quote.
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Date: 2006-04-12 10:56 pm (UTC)http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/westwing/
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