This Is A Time For Serious People,

A Friend Is Somebody Who Says The Same Things To Your Face That They Would Say If You're Not In The Room.

Education Is The Silver Bullet. Education Is Everything. We Don't Need Little Changes, We Need Gigantic, Monumental Changes. Schools Should Be Palaces. The Competition For The Best Teachers Should Be Fierce. They Should Be Making Six-figure Salaries. Schools Should Be Incredibly Expensive For Government And Absolutely Free Of Charge To Its Citizens, Just Like National Defense. That's My Position. I Just Haven't Figured Out How To Do It Yet.

President Bartlet: There's A Delegation Of Cardiologists Having Their Pictures Taken In The Blue Room. You Wouldn't Think You Could Find A Group Of People More Arrogant Than The Fifteen Of Us, But There They Are, Right Upstairs In The Blue Room.

I Had Never Thought Of Doing Television. But My Agent Wanted Me To Meet John Wells, Who Had Had A Lot Of Success Producing Er And China Beach. The Night Before The Meeting, Some Friends Were Over For Dinner And Akiva Goldsman And I Slipped Downstairs To The Basement So We Could Sneak A Cigarette. He Said, "you Know What Would Make A Good Television Series? That." And He Was Pointing At The American President Poster. He Said, "there Doesn't Have To Be A Romance, Just Focus On A Senior Staffer."

It Wouldn't Kill You To Watch A Film Or Pick Up A Newspaper Once In A While.