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Well, Ted, as I said last time, it won't happen again.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

That's the great thing about Catholicism - it's very vague and no-one knows what it's really all about.

Fr Hernandez: The Reverend Green... with the knife... in the drawing room.
Fr Ted: Those Protestants. Up to no good as usual.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

That money was just resting in my account!

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

Education -- if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.

Donna Moss: Schadenfreude?
C.J. Cregg: You know, enjoying the suffering of others. The whole rationale behind the House of Representatives.

No weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

I don't mind at all any of the jokes or remarks about age, because Thomas Jefferson made a comment about the Presidency and age. He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task. And ever since he told me that I stopped worrying...

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

Movie criticism to be of any use whatever must go beyond formal analysis - which in movies is generally a disguised form of subjective reaction to meanings and implications, anyway.

I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at the moment. ‘Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope’.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

Movies—a tawdry corrupt art for a tawdry corrupt world—fit the way we feel.

We need to be investigated by someone who wants to kill us just to watch us die. We need someone perceived by the American people to be irresponsible, untrustworthy, partisan, ambitious, and thirsty for the limelight. Am I crazy, or is this not a job for the US House of Representatives?

One in forty American men wear women's clothing and we've had well over forty presidents. I'm just saying, one of these guys was dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress. Now let's get to the bottom of that.

President Josiah Bartlet: You know that line you're not supposed to cross with the President?
C.J. Cregg: I'm coming up on it?
President Josiah Bartlet: No, no. Look behind you