- Toby Ziegler: In a triumph of the middling, a nod to mediocrity, and with gorge rising, it gives me great nausea to announce Robert Russell - Bingo Bob, himself - as your new Vice President.
- Will Bailey: This lapdog of mining interests is as dull as he is unremarkable...
- Toby Ziegler: ...as lackluster as he is soporific. This reversion to the mean...
- Will Bailey: ...this rebuke to the exemplary...
- Toby Ziegler: ...gives hope to the millions unfavored by the exceptional... the vice presidency, being famously once described as not being worth a warm bucket of spit, let's now hock a big loogie for Bob Russell: not the worst, not the best, just what we're stuck with.
- C.J. Cregg: We've certainly come a long way from "Give me your tired, your poor." If we don't allow this defection, if we blithely exploit this young man's ignorance, then I don't know who we are anymore.
- President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: There's a Korean word, Han. I looked it up. There is no literal English translation, it's a state of mind, of soul really. A sadness. A sadness so deep no tears will come, and yet still, there's hope.