Privateers
Abbey: I gave you an extra hour. I checked the scheduling. There's absolutely no reason why you couldn't sleep an extra hour.
Bartlet: I know. And when she called me at 5:00 I was going to say “Call me back in an hour” and go back to sleep. I was going to do it myself.
Abbey: You had a little plan.
Bartlet: Yeah. Now I missed the whole thing.
Marion Cotesworth-Haye: I am Marion Cotesworth-Haye.
CJ: [bursts out laughing] I'm sorry. I was...I was thinking of this thing from...[snorts] this thing that just happened...with the deficit! [still laughing]
Josh: You going to the DAR thing tonight?
[Toby continues to glare at Josh]
Josh: It's not that I didn't know federal law, it's...we got in a little deep before I was able to, you know, summon that...
Toby: Shut up.
Abbey: I gave a made-up award to Marion tonight.
Bartlet: Marblehead?
Abbey: I think she's from Marblehead.
Bartlet: No, some of us call her Marblehead.
Abbey: She was gonna boycott the thing.
Bartlet: Cause you're a pirate?
Abbey: Oh, not me. Seventeen generations ago. And he was a privateer.
Abbey: You put a guy on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals who called sexual harassment “a flight of fancy for the overindulged.” You put him on the Tenth Circuit.
Bartlet: Today?
Abbey: Three years ago. And TANF cut child care subsidies, and equal pay got pocket vetoed, and abstinence only and teacher funding initiatives, and I didn't do a lot or really anything to stop them.
Bartlet: Yeah, you did.
Abbey: And now this thing. I want to contribute, is all.