Ainsley Hayes Quotes

Sam Seaborn: You're going back to Smith College, the cradle of feminism, to argue in opposition to the Equal Rights Ammendment?
Ainsley Hayes: And get some decent pizza, yeah.
Sam Seaborn: They're gonna hate you.
Ainsley Hayes: Sam, I'm a straight Republican from North Carolina. You don't think they hated me the first time around?

Sexual revolution tends to get in the way of actual revolution. Nonsense issues distract attention away from real ones: pay equity, child care, honest-to-God sexual harassment.

Sam Seaborn: I'm going to register with the Republican Party. And I'll tell you why, if you're curious. It's because they're a freedom-loving people.
Ainsley Hayes: We also like beef.

Sam Seaborn: You must've had 'em rolling in the aisles back in Georgia.
Ainsley Hayes: I'm from North Carolina.
Sam Seaborn: Wherever it was that you studied baton twirling.
Ainsley Hayes: That'd be Harvard Law School.

Ainsley Hayes: Mr. Tribbey? I'd like to do well on this, my first assignment. Any advice you could give me that might point me the way of success would be, by me, appreciated.
Lionel Tribbey: Well, not speaking in iambic pentameter might be a step in the right direction.

C.J. Cregg: I want you to get with one of your friends in the press room from a conservative paper.
Ainsley Hayes: You really think we have a secret handshake, don't you?
C.J. Cregg: Do you?
Ainsley Hayes: Yes.