PRESIDENT BARTLETT: "See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.

Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace

The world can move or not by changing some words.

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?

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.

I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to me. -- Sam

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

If you know who you are, you do not need to consider yourself to be worse or better than someone else

As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.

As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.

Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us in.

It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.