- Josh Lyman: Okay, forget what I was saying. I want you to get out there and lower expectations now.
- Louise Thornton: Beyond what they are?
- Josh Lyman: Lower than low! Go for low! Hades low! Spinning iron core in the planet low! Low!
- Will Bailey: Can you brief me on this Kazakhstan situation? The press is starting to ask me more questions than I have answers.
- Kate Harper: Sure. What do you want to know?
- Will Bailey: Has a deal been structured to keep Chinese troops on their side of the border?
- Kate Harper: That's classified.
- Will Bailey: So if there was a deal, the details would be...?
- Kate Harper: Also classified, if there were details
- Will Bailey: If there was a deal, which is...
- Kate Harper: Classified!
- Will Bailey: As you said. Have elections been rescheduled?
- Kate Harper: In Kazakhstan?
- Will Bailey: That's our subject.
- Kate Harper: Also classified, although for the life of me I can't imagine why.
- Will Bailey: You're enjoying this, aren't you?
- Kate Harper: Not really, no.
- Will Bailey: Have the parties agreed to U.N. monitors in this election that may or may not be rescheduled?
- Kate Harper: Classified.
- Will Bailey: You're just playing with me now!
- Kate Harper: Honestly, I'm not.
- Will Bailey: Is the subject of monitors being discussed? It's in the papers it is.
- Kate Harper: They didn't hear it from us.
- Will Bailey: So, it's being considered... debated, negotiated... anywhere, by anyone?
- Kate Harper: I'm so sorry.
- Will Bailey: It makes you feel powerful. "I am woman, hear me withhold."
- Kate Harper: It's not like that.
- Josh Lyman: I forget, in D.C. do they allow felons to vote?
- [pause]
- Josh Lyman: Too soon?
- Toby Ziegler: Yeah, a little bit.