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	Season 7 / Episode 22: - Tomorrow Deborah Fiderer: [speaking to outgoing President Bartlet, about his delay and indecision on pardoning Toby Zeigler] You do realize you turn into a pumpkin at noon?
	Season 7 / Episode 22: - Tomorrow Deborah Fiderer: [briefing Ronna on her duties] Your most important job is keeping track of who's going in and out of the oval office. The first thing you'll need to do is establish who'll have walk-in privileges. Usually it's just the First Lady and the Chief of Staff. At some point the President is going to ask you to take away his wife's walk-in privileges... don't do it. No matter how much he begs.
	Season 7 / Episode 22: - Tomorrow Abbey Bartlet: What are you thinking about? President Josiah Bartlet: Tomorrow.
	Season 7 / Episode 22: - Tomorrow President Josiah Bartlet: Make me proud, Mr. President. President Matthew Santos: I'll do my best, Mr. President.
	Season 7 / Episode 22: - Tomorrow Sam Seaborn: [setting foot in the White House for the first time in three years] Home, sweet home.
	Season 7 / Episode 22: - Tomorrow Margaret Hooper: ...and they've asked that we vacate our parking spots by 2 p.m. Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: Not a problem. I walked today. Margaret Hooper: Really? Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: Yes, I often walk. Margaret Hooper: You do? Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: Sometimes I walk. I'm going to walk a lot when I get back to California. Margaret Hooper: Los Angeles being a pedestrian nirvana.
	Season 7 / Episode 22: - Tomorrow Charlie Young: What about see a movie? Will Bailey: It's two o'clock in the afternoon. Charlie Young: Got anything better to do? Kate Harper: No, I guess, we don't. Will Bailey: Is there a movie theater around here? Charlie Young: I have no idea.
	Season 7 / Episode 22: - Tomorrow Deborah Fiderer: Good morning, Mr. President. President Josiah Bartlet: Morning. Deborah Fiderer: How do you feel this morning? President Josiah Bartlet: Unemployed. Deborah Fiderer: A lot of that going around the building.
	Season 7 / Episode 22: - Tomorrow Representative Matthew Santos: What's next?
	Season 7 / Episode 22: - Tomorrow Helen Santos: [waiting to step out for the inauguration] Man, I hope Janet Spraegins has her TV on. President Matthew Santos: Who? Helen Santos: Senior year. She beat me out for the last varsity spot on the swim team. President Matthew Santos: Guess what? Helen Santos: What? President Matthew Santos: You win. Helen Santos: [long pause] Though she did get Don Bolland to take her to the prom instead of me. President Matthew Santos: We'll call it even then. Helen Santos: Nah, I'm pretty sure Janet had to put out so Don would take her.
	Season 7 / Episode 21: - Institutional Memory Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: Is it on page 600? Fred: No. Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: Where is it? Herb: There isn't any. Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: What do you mean there isn't any? Fred: There's no... Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: The president said he wanted deficit reduction worked into this budget. I said it should be 50%. Was that not clear? Herb: We thought it was along the lines of, "I'd like a pony". Fred: Nobody actually expects to get the pony. Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: I want the pony.
	Season 7 / Episode 21: - Institutional Memory Danny Concannon: [to C.J] I want you to do what you want to do - take the job at the White House. I just want you to talk to me about it. I want us to talk about what it will mean and we'll make it work. I want us to talk like we're gonna figure it out together. I want us to talk... because I like the sound of your voice. I just want to talk.
	Season 7 / Episode 21: - Institutional Memory Danny Concannon: [to C.J] At some point you have to choose to have a relationship. We're not 25 any more. At our age you can't date a little and screw a little and wait around to see if you get sentimental at Christmas. You have to decide you're gonna make another person a part of your life - a partner.
	Season 7 / Episode 21: - Institutional Memory Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: You make it sound like I'm trying to avoid you. Danny Concannon: I didn't say that. Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: I don't make booty calls. Danny Concannon: You don't make any calls, kind of how it works out. Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: What? Danny Concannon: You're elusive, part of the draw.
	Season 7 / Episode 21: - Institutional Memory Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: What made you think you should be making decisions about my career? Danny Concannon: One, I'm not trying to make them, I'm trying to be part of a conversation about them and two, if we don't have that kind of relationship, what kind do we have? Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: I don't... I don't want to answer that question right now. We agreed to discuss this after the inauguration. Danny Concannon: Not if you're working for Matt Santos we're not. Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: You know what - Danny Concannon: First hundred days, agenda settings, first State of the Union, "talk to me after we release the budget," summit at Tashkent. What else?
	Season 7 / Episode 21: - Institutional Memory Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: I don't have time for this right now. Danny Concannon: Yes you do. I called Margaret before I came by, I'm not a moron. I called and you have twenty minutes. Hell you have an hour. You're not the busiest girl in America. That's not your life anymore.... Look, I'm not trying to turn you into Doris Day. I know if we have a future together, I'd be Mr. C.J. Cregg, that's fine. But you don't even see me in the picture do you?
	Season 7 / Episode 21: - Institutional Memory Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: I missed the window. That's what's going on here. I... missed the window to figure out... how to do this. Danny Concannon: How to...? Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: Share my life with another person, how to be a partner or whatever condescending way you put it this afternoon. Danny Concannon: Oh, I wasn't trying - Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: I don't know how to do it. Maybe at one point I did, maybe I never did, but it's over now. It's too late. This and skiing. It's too late, it's not going to happen. Danny Concannon: C.J... Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: You said yourself, it's not an accident that this hasn't come together. This is who I am. I'm good at my job, Danny, I'm good at working, I'm not good at this. Danny Concannon: You're right, you suck at it. You're going to need a tremendous amount of training.
	Season 7 / Episode 21: - Institutional Memory Danny Concannon: We're going to get good at new things. Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: You don't know that. Danny Concannon: I do. Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: Don't make it sound like it's nothing. Danny Concannon: You didn't miss it. Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: What if I did? Danny Concannon: You didn't miss it. Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg: What if we can't... Danny Concannon: We'll figure it out. All of it. You can be scared. That's okay. But you're not going to walk away from me because you're scared. I'm not that scary.
	Season 7 / Episode 20: - The Last Hurrah Jim - Vinick's Attorney: [exiting Vinick's office] You got to talk to him about money. Sheila Brooks: You're his oldest friend. If you can't get through to him, I can't. Jim - Vinick's Attorney: He's refusing to join any boards. He just wants to do guest lecturing at universities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida. He's going to be bored to death, and he won't be able to afford the Republican lifestyle he deserves.
	Season 7 / Episode 19: - Transition Louise Thornton: Rough day? Josh Lyman: Nuh, typical. Louise Thornton: You love it, you live for it, you were born to do it, I'm the same way. Everybody tells me to get a life, although I don't know why... I find life to be terribly overrated. It's actually quite boring when it's not disappointing. Say what you will about what we do, but boring it is not. Josh Lyman: I know that you can parlay the Santos win into a doubling of your fee. Louise Thornton: Tripling, if it figures into your memoirs. Josh Lyman: Nothing is going to top this. Everything else's going to be a letdown. Louise Thornton: Letdowns that make me semi-rich, that's a tradeoff I'm willing to endure. Josh Lyman: You don't care about money. Louise Thornton: Who doesn't? Josh Lyman: You! Louise Thornton: Not as such. Josh Lyman: As what? Louise Thornton: Scorekeeping. Quantitative evidence that I'm smarter than you. Not you. Josh Lyman: Who? Louise Thornton: Everybody else. Josh Lyman: Come on board as communications director. Louise Thornton: Thank you, but no. Josh Lyman: Finish what you started. Louise Thornton: I'm not interested in governing. Josh Lyman: Campaigning's about promise; governing's about achievement. It's, it's tougher and a lot less romantic, but it's not boring. I already think you're smarter than everyone, that's why I want you down the hall. Come on, it's not like getting a life! Louise Thornton: That's true, look at you.
	Season 7 / Episode 19: - Transition Donna Moss: Be still and listen to me. I don't know what this is. And you don't either, which is perfectly fine and understandable. Whatever the build up, it's all happened amid absurdly heightened emotional circumstances. The election. Leo's death. There's been no moment to so much as take a breath, much less figure any of this out. And now this roller coaster's plunging into the transition, with its time-pressure demands and then the inauguration and it's hit the ground running and the first hundred days, and before you know it, the midterms and the new Congress and then we're running again and four years becomes eight, and we've never had the talk. And you can lose that look of panic in your eyes, we're not going to have it now; we don't ever have to have it. But there's a window. I'd say four weeks. If we can't get it together in that time to figure out what we want from each other, then clearly, it's not worth the trouble.
	Season 7 / Episode 19: - Transition Helen Santos: Time for a little incursion? President Elect Matthew Santos: [looks at his watch] Not even for a surgical strike. Helen Santos: I had in mind more of shock and awe. President Elect Matthew Santos: Oh, yeah? After 15 years of marriage I'd be shocked if you were awed.
	Season 7 / Episode 18: - Requiem Amy Gardner: You're looking for Leo McGarry, Josh, and he's not available.
	Season 7 / Episode 18: - Requiem Charlie Young: I'll walk out with you. I don't think a picture of you and me makes the New York Times. Do you?
	Season 7 / Episode 16: - Election Day, Part 1 Ronna: [Josh is in a hotel lobby and has just learned that some coworkers are sleeping together] You might have had an easier year of it if you had "come on board". 6 tomorrow morning right? [Ronna goes to the bar and kisses a female associate] Josh Lyman: Wow, Cindy? Did you know that? Donna Moss: About Ronna and Cindy? Josh Lyman: Any of them? Donna Moss: Yes. Josh Lyman: Which one? Donna Moss: All of them. Josh Lyman: Wow. Did you ever "come on board"? Donna Moss: [seductively] No. Josh Lyman: Never at a campaign thing? Donna Moss: No. [walks over and sits next to Josh] Josh Lyman: You want another drink? Donna Moss: No. [she stands up and walks toward the elevator. Josh picks up his drink, swallows in one sip than sets it down to follow]
	Season 7 / Episode 14: - Two Weeks Out Bruno Gianelli: Know what I hate about Jane? She's not always wrong.
	Season 7 / Episode 11: - Internal Displacement C.J. Cregg: I wanna do my job. I wanna suck every morsel of meat off this experience before it's over. Danny Concannon: Just get something done, will ya? C.J. Cregg: That'll come down to what it always comes down to. Danny Concannon: What's that? C.J. Cregg: How dirty do my feet have to get without disappearing into the mud in order to get an inch of what I really want done.
	Season 7 / Episode 11: - Internal Displacement Danny Concannon: We're both about to fall off a cliff. And I don't know what I'm gonna do with the rest of my life, except I know what I don't wanna do. And on Inauguration Day, you're going to be released from that glorious prison on Pennsylvania Avenue, with... C.J. Cregg: No human skills? Danny Concannon: Seems to me... C.J. Cregg: I should punch you in the face. Danny Concannon: That's what I'm talking about. C.J. Cregg: Keep going... Danny Concannon: So, if I'm gonna jump off the cliff, and you're gonna get pushed off the cliff, why don't we hold hands on the way down?
	Season 7 / Episode 11: - Internal Displacement C.J. Cregg: Men are like salmon. Swimming upstream, hosing down the riverbed with their indiscriminate seed... Danny Concannon: Indiscriminate seed? C.J. Cregg: Until... Danny Concannon: Did you just say "indiscriminate seed"? C.J. Cregg: Until they die, bloated and spent, belly-up in the sun. Danny Concannon: Oh, quit sweet-talkin' me, baby. C.J. Cregg: Unless they get taken out with a bear paw in the waterfall, as they deserve to be.
	Season 7 / Episode 5: - Here Today President Josiah Bartlet: Toby... Toby Ziegler: Yes, sir? President Josiah Bartlet: When you walk out of here, there'll be people out there, perhaps a great many, who'll think of you as a hero. I just don't for a moment want you thinking I'll be one of them.

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