The West Wing (TV Series)

And It's Surely to Their Credit (2000)

Stockard Channing: Abbey Bartlet

Quotes 

• [the President and the First Lady can finally have sex after a long time; they are in the Oval office] 

  Abbey Bartlet : BP 120 over 80.

  President Josiah Bartlet : Who cares? It's been 14 weeks. Do these curtains close?

  Abbey Bartlet : Not here, Jed.

  President Josiah Bartlet : Yes. You're right... where?

  Abbey Bartlet : How about our bedroom?

  President Josiah Bartlet : New Hampshire is an hour and a half by plane. I don't have that kind of time.

  Abbey Bartlet : How about our bedroom in the residence?

  President Josiah Bartlet : Yes. We have a bedroom right here in the building. That was so smart.

  Abbey Bartlet : Yes.

  President Josiah Bartlet : Let's go.

  Abbey Bartlet : Jed.

  President Josiah Bartlet : What?

  Abbey Bartlet : Korea? Plutonium?

  President Josiah Bartlet : Oh God... I hate plutonium.

• President Josiah Bartlet : You know what I did, just then, that was stupid? I minimized the importance of the statue that was dedicated to Nellie Bly, an extraordinary woman to whom we all owe a great deal.

  Abbey Bartlet : You don't know who she is, do you?

  President Josiah Bartlet : [to himself]  This isn't happening to me.

  Abbey Bartlet : She pioneered investigative journalism.

  President Josiah Bartlet : Then she's the one I want to beat the crap out of.

  Abbey Bartlet : She risked her life by having herself committed to a mental institution for ten days so she could write about it. She changed entirely the way we treat the mentally ill in this country.

  President Josiah Bartlet : Yes. Abigail...

  Abbey Bartlet : In 1890, she traveled around the world in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds, besting by more than one week, Jules Verne's 80 days.

  President Josiah Bartlet : She sounds like an incredible woman, Abbey. I'm particularly impressed that she beat a fictional record. If she goes down 21,000 leagues under the sea, I'll name a damn school after her! Let's have sex.

  Abbey Bartlet : When it comes to historical figures being memorialized in this country, women have been largely overlooked. Nellie Bly is just the tip of the iceberg.

  President Josiah Bartlet : I couldn't possibly hear about the rest of the iceberg right now.

  Abbey Bartlet : Elizabeth Blackwell was the first American woman to be awarded an MD. She founded the Women's Medical College...

  President Josiah Bartlet : Keep talking. I'm just gonna sit here and think about plutonium and the things I can do with it.

• Abbey Bartlet : Just give him a message for me, would you?

  Charlie Young : Sure.

  Abbey Bartlet : You'll want to write this down.

  Charlie Young : Yes, ma'am.

  Abbey Bartlet : Your blood pressure is 120/80.

  Charlie Young : How did you know that, ma'am?

  Abbey Bartlet : I'm saying his blood pressure.

  Charlie Young : Ah... is 120/80.

  Abbey Bartlet : Yeah. Your EKG shows a good sinus rhythm.

  Charlie Young : Okay.

  Abbey Bartlet : No evidence of ischemic changes.

  Charlie Young : How are we spelling...?

  Abbey Bartlet : Doesn't matter. Your electrolytes and metabolic panels are within normal limits. Chest x-ray is clear, and prostate screens are fine.

  Charlie Young : Okay.

  Abbey Bartlet : So, we can have sex now.

• President Josiah Bartlet : Take your clothes off.

  Abbey Bartlet : Whatever happened to romance? A couple of cocktails, Mel Torme...

  President Josiah Bartlet : Get 'em off.

  Abbey Bartlet : Okay, I'm going to the bathroom.

• President Josiah Bartlet : By the way, sweet knees: The Statue of Liberty.

  Abbey Bartlet : Get upstairs.

  President Josiah Bartlet : Right there at the front door to the country.

  Abbey Bartlet : Get upstairs.

  President Josiah Bartlet : Like a lawn jockey.