- [Sam is addressing a group of students about terrorism]
- Sam Seaborn: We jumped out from behind bushes while the British came down the road in their bright red jackets, but never has a war been so courteously declared. It was on parchment with calligraphy, and "Your Highness, we beseech you on this day in Philadelphia to bite me, if you please."
- Josh Lyman: [on what to do with terrorists] I'd put 'em in a small cell and make them watch home movies of the birthdays and baptisms and weddings of every single person they killed over and over everyday for the rest of their lives. And then they'd get punched in the mouth every night at bedtime.
- President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: We don't need martyrs right now. We need heroes. A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.
- Josh Lyman: You want to get these people? I mean, you really want to reach in and kill them where they live? Keep accepting more than one idea. It makes them absolutely crazy.
- High-School Girl: What do you call a society that has to just live every day with the idea that the pizza place you're eating in can just blow up without any warning?
- Sam Seaborn: Israel.
- Josh Lyman: You're juniors and seniors. In honor of the SATs you're about to take, answer the following question:
- [writing on dry eraseboard]
- Josh Lyman: Islamic extremist is to Islamic as "blank" is to Christianity.
- Abbey Bartlet: I was very young when I had my kids. I was very, very, very, very young. I was barely even born yet when I had my oldest daughter, Elizabeth