The West Wing (TV Series)

The Benign Prerogative (2004)

Martin Sheen: President Josiah Bartlet

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Quotes 

• President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : [trying to pick a necktie]  Which one of these screams "dominance?"

  Abbey Bartlet : Do I get to wear it afterwards?

  President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : No comment.

• Josh Lyman : If you wanna throw light on how minimums and guidelines conspire to produce disproportionate punishments...

  President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : ... and worse: leave judges impotent! Our judicial system is predicated on an individual's right to a fair trial. But how individual is that process, if a 258 box grid seales your fate before you ever step foot in front of a judge, a FEDERAL judge, that my office has invested considerable effort in selecting, who is then constrained from exercising basic common sense, while twenty-nine year old prosecutors, who make their bones on their win-loss record hold the only discretion in the whole system?