Toby Quotes Season 1

“I am not empowered to auction off the Bill of Rights.”

“This is a perfect metaphor. After you’re gone, and the poets write The Legend of Josiah Bartlet, let them write you as a tragic figure, sir. Let the poets write that he had the tools of greatness, but the voices of his better angels were shouted down by his obsessive need to win.”

“By changing some words — the world can move or not by changing some words.”

“Nobody ever looks like Joe McCarthy. That’s how they get in the door in the first place.”

“In a battle between a president’s demons and his better angels, for the first time in a long while, I think we might just have ourselves a fair fight.”

“I don’t think we should remind people how friendly we were with dictators who oppressed their people while stealing their money.”

“We’ve been doing this for a year and all we’ve gotten is a year older. Our job approval’s 48 percent and I think that number’s soft, and I’m tired of being the field captain for the gang that couldn’t shoot straight! We’re getting this done.”

“We’re running away from ourselves. And I know we can score points that way, I was a principal architect of that campaign strategy... But we’re here now. Tomorrow night we do an immense thing. We have to say what we feel. That government — no matter what its failures in the past, and in times to come, for that matter — government can be a place where people come together. And where no one gets left behind. No one gets left behind. An instrument of good. I have no trouble understanding why the line tested well... But I don’t think that means we should say it. I think that means we should change it.”

“There’s nothing about this that doesn’t stink. If it were me, I’d wanna extract vengeance, and I’d say ‘Let justice be done.’ I’d also wanna spend some time in a dark room alone, so that I didn’t have to face my wife and my son and have them see my humiliation. Rob, I can’t get this done if this is the story. Can’t get it done. Nothing about this that doesn’t stink. And nothing about it that wouldn’t be better if you were a Supreme Court Justice.”

“One victory in a year stinks in the life of an administration, but it’s not the ones we lose that bother me...it’s the ones we don’t suit up for!”

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