The West Wing (TV Series)
The Portland Trip (2000)
Rob Lowe: Sam Seaborn
Quotes
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Sam Seaborn : You think a Communist never wrote an elegant phrase? How do you think they got everybody to be Communists?
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President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : A long flight across the night. You know why late flights are good? Because we cease to be earthbound and burdened with practicality. Ask the impertinent question. Talk about the idea that nobody has thought about yet. Put it a different way...
Sam Seaborn : Be poets.
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[despondent over his current writing "slump"]
Sam Seaborn : Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place. We should be talking about not being satisfied with past solutions; we should be talking about a permanent revolution.
