The West Wing (TV Series)

Undecideds (2005)

Richard Schiff: Toby Ziegler

Quotes 

• Josh Lyman : This isn't about the President doesn't think Santos can win, it's about you don't think he can win.

  Toby Ziegler : That's true, I don't.

  Josh Lyman : Because it will kill you to see me do this and succeed. You're not wired for such an event. You're entire neurological infrastructure would fritz out.

  Toby Ziegler : You really think I built up some Freudian fratricidal mania built around your success? You don't think I have anything other than that against the Democratic nominee for President?

  Josh Lyman : Name something else, please.

  Toby Ziegler : He's not Presidential material.

  Josh Lyman : Why?

  Toby Ziegler : Why? Because he left. He left Congress, he left Washington to go home and do small, important work. You had to haul him by the hair out of the family bed. Did you never stop to wonder if that was a good choice?

  Josh Lyman : He stepped up when presented with the opportunity.

  Toby Ziegler : The man in that job shouldn't have to be presented with anything! It's for someone who grabs it and holds on to it, for someone who thinks the gods have conspired to bring him to this place, that destiny demands of him this service! If you don't have that kind of drive, that hubris, how in the hell are you going to make the kind of decisions that stump every other person in this country? How in the hell are you going to hold that kind of power in your hand?

  Josh Lyman : You don't know he's not that man.

  Toby Ziegler : You don't know that he is. Is he? Look me in the eye and tell me that you know, without a shadow of a doubt you know.

  [Josh says nothing] 

  Toby Ziegler : That's why the other guy wins.