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	Season 1 / Episode 14: - The Price You Pay Nathan Templeton: [to Jayne, after the President made Carl Brantley AG] From now on, we don't stop. Attack, attack, attack, attack.
	Season 1 / Episode 13: - State of the Unions Reporter: [after the President's husband was photographed touching another woman's breasts] Will the first gentleman be sleeping on the couch tonight? Mackenzie Allen: He may choose to, but only because there hasn't been a new mattress in the residence since Nixon...
	Season 1 / Episode 13: - State of the Unions Rod Calloway: Oh, man, I've got such a headache. Mackenzie Allen: I'm not surprised.
	Season 1 / Episode 12: - Wind Beneath My Wing Mackenzie Allen: Tell me, when exactly did my Presidency turn into a time share? Rod Calloway: What are you...? Mackenzie Allen: My California schedule. Looks like you and Dickie are selling me off in 5-minute blocks. Rod Calloway: No one's selling your time, Mac. Mackenzie Allen: Really? Lets see. Mackenzie Allen: [She starts reading from her schedule] "POTUS", that would be me, "will be joined in limo by business man Caleb Talben. On arrival to groundbreaking, POTUS will be escorted by real estate developer, Mike Muller". Ah, my personal favorite: "POTUS will ride in elevator to suite with investment banker Victoria Voles". I just hope for Ms. Voles' sake, it's a tall hotel.
	Season 1 / Episode 12: - Wind Beneath My Wing Reporter: Madame President, any chance you'd care to comment on this mornings USA Today poll? You're numbers show you and the Speaker are now tied among likely voters. Mackenzie Allen: [to Nathan, faking confusion] Mr. Speaker, are you running for something? Nathan Templeton: Me?... Yes: the door.
	Season 1 / Episode 12: - Wind Beneath My Wing Kate Allen: [to Becca and Horace after they decided to invite their friends to the White House for a party] It's been 200 years since the White House burned down, I'd like to keep the streak alive.
	Season 1 / Episode 12: - Wind Beneath My Wing Nathan Templeton: False modesty doesn't suit you. Mackenzie Allen: Nor you.
	Season 1 / Episode 12: - Wind Beneath My Wing Syndi Saltzman: [explaining to the President the event they are heading to] After the National Anthem, Lucy Bridges, the President's niece, will read a short poem. Speaker Templeton will make brief remarks and introduce you. Two shovels and some prearranged loose dirt will be stage right. After the speech, you and the Speaker will do the honors. Kelly will have the press pool pre-positioned to make the shot. Rod Calloway: [enthusiastically] And that's our picture of the day. Mackenzie Allen: [in disbelief] The Speaker and I flinging dirt?
	Season 1 / Episode 12: - Wind Beneath My Wing Richard 'Dickie' McDonald: [On Air Force One while it's being held hostage, talking on his cell phone with Kelly] I'm telling you, Kelly, you know more than I do. Kelly Ludlow: There aren't a whole lot of details. Aren't you getting anything from the Secret Service? Richard 'Dickie' McDonald: I don't think the agents like me very much. Kelly Ludlow: [sarcastically] That's hard to believe. Richard 'Dickie' McDonald: You're actually enjoying the fact that I may get blown up. Kelly Ludlow: Our, "cares about pollster" numbers may take a short term hit, but...
	Season 1 / Episode 12: - Wind Beneath My Wing Horace's friend: [to Horace, during a party at The White House] Lincoln's ghost... he like lives here, right? Horace Calloway: Yeah, go check it out man, first room on the right.
	Season 1 / Episode 12: - Wind Beneath My Wing Mackenzie Allen: So let me understand this. We have half of the Secret Service at the airport, FBI, SWAT teams, we have a spy satellite that can read a license plate from space, and my major source of information is cable news? What if the Chinese invade? Am I gonna hear it first on talk radio?
	Season 1 / Episode 12: - Wind Beneath My Wing Mackenzie Allen: [to her husband, after realizing that Dickie stayed in Air Force One just to have sex with a reporter] It was your idea to hire this guy. Just remember that.
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - Sub Enchanted Evening (1) Mackenzie Allen: Do you want me to talk to the boy's parents? Rebecca Calloway: No, Mom, that would only make it worse. Mackenzie Allen: Ok. Do you want me to have him arrested under the Patriot Act and shipped off to prison in Syria? Rebecca Calloway: That might work.
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Mom Who Came to Dinner Warren Keaton: Does no one here care that closing the bases might be what's best for the country? Jim Gardner: [sarcastically] No, Mr. Vice President, you're the only one who cares about the country. The rest of us are just here for the book deals.
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Mom Who Came to Dinner Mackenzie Allen: So, it's better to BE ineffective, than to seem ineffective, right? What a town!
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Mom Who Came to Dinner Jayne Murray: [running into Jim during her first day in the White House as a lobbyist] Rumor is the President's decided to run. Jim Gardner: That's your hello? Jayne Murray: Come on! You guys brought in Dickie McDonald... Jim Gardner: Like, a half hour ago! Did somebody send up a smoke signal from the RNC? Jayne Murray: Oh, we use instant messaging now.
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Mom Who Came to Dinner Jim Gardner: [to President Allen, whose mother is visiting the White House for Thanksgiving] Must be nice to get a visit from someone who's just here for the turkey. Mackenzie Allen: You don't know my mother.
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Mom Who Came to Dinner Kelly Ludlow: Since you got here, all I'm getting is speculation on: Is she running, and when is she announcing. Richard 'Dickie' McDonald: [Smiling proudly] I like that. Kelly Ludlow: I'm sure that you do, but there's only so much I can vamp from the podium. Richard 'Dickie' McDonald: Your vamping polls higher than you think. Kelly Ludlow: Ah, you polled my vamping? Richard 'Dickie' McDonald: I poll everything.
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Mom Who Came to Dinner Sara Templeton: Jayne was an excellent Chief of Staff. You won't find any better. And you know you miss her. Nathan Templeton: Well... I can't hire her back. Sara Templeton: Why not? Nathan Templeton: 'Cause I'd have to beg.
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Mom Who Came to Dinner Rod Calloway: [about his mother in-law] She's like Jackie Kennedy without the pillbox.
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - First Scandal Mackenzie Allen: This whole situation has taught me something. That no matter what happens, there is only one person that I know has my back.
	Season 1 / Episode 2: - First Choice Warren Keaton: What can I tell you? If you want a man who is worth a damn in this job, you got to make this job worth a damn.
	Unknown Episode: Grace Bridges: If Moses had been a woman, leading the Jews out of Egypt, she'd have stopped to ask for directions. They would've found Israel within a week.
	Unknown Episode: Mackenzie Allen: What a town. You can't even trust the backstabbers.
	Unknown Episode: Mackenzie Allen: I'm going to go out there, and I'm going to take the oath of office. I'm going to run this government... and if some Islamic nations can't tolerate a female president, then I promise you... it will be more their problem than mine!
	Unknown Episode: Amy Allen: Will they put your face on money?
	Unknown Episode: Mackenzie Allen: So I say to the people of this nation: I am humbled by your greatness. I am humbled by the history being made here today, humbled by the notion that I am the first woman to hold this office. I'm humbled by the responsibilities that rest with me.
	Unknown Episode: Mackenzie Allen: [grumbling that her youngest has interrupted an intimate moment with her husband] Potus interruptus.
	Unknown Episode: Reporter: Least she's doing something. You're just talking. Nathan Templeton: You don't get it, do you? She's doing something to cause a lot of talk; I'm talking something to cause a lot to get done.

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