- President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: ...'Joy cometh in the morning,' scripture tells us. I hope so. I don't know if life would be worth living if it didn't. And I don't yet know who set off the bomb at Kennison State. I don't know if it's one person or ten, and I don't know what they want. All I know for sure, all I know for certain, is that they weren't born wanting to do this. There's evil in the world, there'll always be, and we can't do anything about that. But there's violence in our schools, too much mayhem in our culture, and we can do something about that. There's not enough character, discipline, and depth in our classrooms; there aren't enough teachers in our classrooms. There isn't nearly enough, not nearly enough, not nearly enough money in our classrooms, and we can do something about that. We're not doing nearly enough, not nearly enough to teach our children well, and we can do better, and we must do better, and we will do better, and we will start this moment today! They weren't born wanting to do this.
- C.J. Cregg: Twenty-five years ago, half of all 18- to 24-year-olds voted. Today it's 25%. 18- to 24-year-olds represent 33% of the population but only account for 7% of the voters. Think government isn't about you? How many of you have student loans to pay? How many have credit card debt? How many want clean air and clean water and civil liberties? How many want jobs? How many want kids? How many want their kids to go to good schools and walk on safe streets? Decisions are made by those who show up. You gotta rock the vote!
- Atty. Jordon Kendall: All I meant by 'cloak and dagger' is that I'm not cut out for the security meetings and the secret this and the back channel ambassadors. It's like you're in the Mafia.
- Leo McGarry: Well, it may be like I'm in the Mafia, but I'm not. I work for the good guys.
- Atty. Jordon Kendall: It was one sentence. The problem was that you were never at the other end of the phone.
- Leo McGarry: That's an entirely different kettle of beans and we can have that discussion, but history has shown if you just wait and tell it to a divorce lawyer you can have half of my stuff.
- Atty. Jordon Kendall: I don't want your stuff.
- Leo McGarry: You don't know; some of it's good stuff.
- FBI Special Agent Michael Casper: Mr. President, three hours ago, Sheriff's deputies in Johnson County, Iowa, surrounded a house when they were tipped off that several men in their twenties had been buying all the pseudoephedrine they could get their hands on. Three of the stores they went to were owned by the same man.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Allergy medicine?
- FBI Special Agent Michael Casper: Allergy medicine with tractor starter fluid strained through a coffee filter is methamphetamine.
- President Josiah Bartlet: Tractor starter fluid doesn't *kill* you?
- FBI Special Agent Michael Casper: No, it'll definitely kill you, but first you'll get pretty high.