The West Wing Script Book Quotes

“President Josiah Bartlet: Good. I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.

Dr. Jenna Jacobs: I don't say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does.

President Josiah Bartlet: Yes, it does. Leviticus.

Dr. Jenna Jacobs: 18:22.

President Josiah Bartlet: Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I had you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be? While thinking about that, can I ask another? My Chief of Staff Leo McGarry insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or is it okay to call the police? Here's one that's really important 'cause we've got a lot of sports fans in this town: Touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? Think about those questions, would you? One last thing: While you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the Ignorant Tight-Ass Club, in this building, when the President stands, nobody sits.”
― Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing Script Book

“This guy's walking down the street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep he can't get out.
"A doctor passes by and the guy shouts up, 'Hey you. Can you help me out?' The doctor writes a prescription, throws it down in the hole and moves on.
"Then a priest comes along and the guy shouts up, 'Father, I'm down in this hole can you help me out?' The priest writes out a prayer, throws it down in the hole and moves on
"Then a friend walks by, 'Hey, Joe, it's me can you help me out?' And the friend jumps in the hole. Our guy says, 'Are you stupid? Now we're both down here.' The friend says, 'Yeah, but I've been down here before and I know the way out.”
― Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing Script Book

“There (is) order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge.”
― Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing Script Book

“And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.”
― Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing Script Book

“It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.”
― Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing Script Book

“PRESIDENT BARTLETT: "See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.”
― Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing Script Book

“DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?”
― Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing Script Book

“TOBY: The world can move or not by changing some words.”
― Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing Script Book

“Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace”
― Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing Script Book

“There is order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge.”
― Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing Script Book

“If fidelity to freedom of democracy is the code of our civic religion then surely the code of our humanity is faithful service to that unwritten commandment that says we shall give our children better than we ourselves received.”
― Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing Script Book

“I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to me. -- Sam”
― Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing Script Book

“The world can move or not by changing some words.”
― Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing Script Book