- Sam Seaborn: Toby, do you really think it's a good idea to invite people to dinner and then to tell them exactly what they're doing wrong with their lives?
- Toby Ziegler: Absolutely, otherwise it's just a waste of food.
- C.J. Cregg: I spoke to Peggy about the vermeil - you might get a few questions.
- Abbey Bartlet: I'm not embarrassed by the vermeil. It's not as if we spent new money on it.
- C.J. Cregg: Yes, but its history...
- Abbey Bartlet: It's our history. Better or worse, it's our history. We're not going to lock it in the basement or brush it with a new coat of paint. It's our history.
- C.J. Cregg: Well, good answer.
- Abbey Bartlet: Well, the truth'll do it almost every time.
- C.J. Cregg: When you flirt with me, are you doing it to get a story?
- Danny Concannon: No.
- C.J. Cregg: Why are you doing it?
- Danny Concannon: I'm doing it to flirt with you.
- Leo McGarry: You got to work with Toby on the toast.
- Toby Ziegler: Don't need him.
- Leo McGarry: Yes, you do.
- Sam Seaborn: It takes two people to write a toast?
- Leo McGarry: The State Department is very particular about these toasts.
- Josh Lyman: I'll assign someone from my office.
- Mandy Hampton: I can do it.
- Josh Lyman: No, you can't.
- Mandy Hampton: Why not?
- Josh Lyman: Because you're a political consultant and this is an actual, you know, thing.
- Mandy Hampton: Leo, please tell Josh that I can play a role in issues and it's not going to be the end to this administration.
- Josh Lyman: I don't think it will be the end of this administration, Leo. I think it's going to be the end of this republic.
- Mandy Hampton: It really bugs you that the President listens to me sometimes.
- Josh Lyman: Yes, but you shouldn't take it personally. It bugs me when the President listens to anyone who isn't me.
- [after the briefing about a state dinner]
- C.J. Cregg: Man alive, do I love it when "In Style" magazine is issued press credentials.
- Josh Lyman: Yeah.
- C.J. Cregg: "Mirabella" needed to know what wine was being served with the fish course. So it's a good thing I went to school for 22 years.
- Josh Lyman: What wine are we...?
- C.J. Cregg: It's wine, you'll drink it.
- Mandy Hampton: The FBI guy has been in there a couple of hours.
- Josh Lyman: Yeah?
- Mandy Hampton: You think it's a good sign?
- Josh Lyman: I really don't know.
- Mandy Hampton: I'm asking you what you think.
- Josh Lyman: I... I don't have any thoughts on it one way or the other.
- Mandy Hampton: Then what's happening with the Teamsters?
- Josh Lyman: I don't know.
- Mandy Hampton: Any news on the hurricane?
- Josh Lyman: Not that I'm aware of.
- Mandy Hampton: What is it you do here exactly?
- Josh Lyman: It's never really been made clear to me.
- Sam Seaborn: Oh, for God's sakes. It's Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 US 335. You cite the precedent, you cite Black's opinion for the majority.
- Laurie: Thank you for that display of geek bravado...
- Donna Moss: I'm not wild about this whole Indonesian business.
- Josh Lyman: What's the problem?
- Donna Moss: I've been doing some reading on my own.
- Josh Lyman: Oh, I wish you wouldn't do that.
- Donna Moss: Why?
- Josh Lyman: Because you tend to call some bizarre factoid from a less-than-reputable source and then you blow it all out of proportion.
- Donna Moss: I do not.
- Josh Lyman: Donna...
- Donna Moss: I just thought you might like to know that in certain parts of Indonesia, they summarily execute people they suspect of being sorcerers.
- Josh Lyman: What?
- Donna Moss: I read it.
- Josh Lyman: They... summarily execute people they suspect of being sorcerers?
- Donna Moss: They behead them.
- Josh Lyman: Sorcerers.
- Donna Moss: Gangs of roving people. Beheading those they suspect of being sorcerers. With, you know... what's that thing that Death carries?
- Josh Lyman: A scythe.
- Donna Moss: They're doing it with a scythe.
- Josh Lyman: Well, thanks for the head's up.
- Donna Moss: I just thought you might like to know who's coming over for dinner.
- Josh Lyman: You bet.
- C.J. Cregg: You're a rabble rouser, you know that? You rouse rabbles.
- Danny Concannon: Hey!
- C.J. Cregg: I went and looked at your big Vermeil demonstration. Six people in Lafayette Park with oak tag and magic markers.
- Danny Concannon: I didn't say it was Selma, Alabama, or anything.
- C.J. Cregg: Six people! Six pathetic people protesting on a Friday and you just lent their weak and feeble voices a megaphone. What do you call that?
- Danny Concannon: A job well done.
- Josh Lyman: Don't worry about it. Donna, call FEMA, use my name. When that doesn't work, use Leo's name.