Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right?Sam: No.Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it?Toby: God bless America.
You are like seven of the strangest women I have ever met.
Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place.
Presidents don’t make new friends. That’s why they’ve got to keep their old ones.” Adm. Fitzwallace
In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything — to impress women.(Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.
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?
By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what’s important by mocking what is not.(Joshua Malina, Sports Night)
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.
It’s an election year. We would prefer that voters didn’t use common sense.
We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to me. — Sam
PRESIDENT BARTLETT: “See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.
I can’t remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It’s frustrating because sometimes I dream that I’m watching a really good movie.
I’ve loved every minute I’ve spent in television. And I’ve had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I’ve done four shows, and only one of them was the ‘West Wing.’
It’s populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
There have been times – and not just on ‘The Newsroom,’ but on ‘The West Wing,’ ‘Sports Night,’ ‘Studio 60’… – where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn’t good enough.
If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you’d get 10 very different movies.
I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
Don’t ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it’s the only thing that ever has.