The West Wing (TV Series)

The Leadership Breakfast (2001)

Richard Schiff: Toby Ziegler

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• Toby Ziegler : Leo, Ann Stark's a wartime consigliere. That's why she was bumped up.

  Leo McGarry : I'm a wartime consigliere, too, Toby.

  Toby Ziegler : Yeah.

  Leo McGarry : I was just hoping it's be peacetime a little longer.

  Toby Ziegler : Yeah.

  Leo McGarry : Son of a bitch.

  Toby Ziegler : Yeah.

  Leo McGarry : Shake my hand.

  [Toby and Leo shake hands] 

  Leo McGarry : We just formed it.

  Toby Ziegler : Formed what?

  Leo McGarry : The committee to re-elect the president.

• Leo McGarry : Alexander Hamilton didn't think we should have political parties. Neither did John Adams. They both thought political parties led to divisiveness.

  Toby Ziegler : They do. They should. We have honest disagreements, arguments are good.

  Leo McGarry : Only if they lead to statesmanship. Or it's... just... theater.

• Toby Ziegler : They're coming for us, Leo.

  Leo McGarry : I know.

  Toby Ziegler : I mean they're coming for us now.

  Leo McGarry : Toby, if you knew what it was like getting him to run the first time.

  Toby Ziegler : I know.

  Leo McGarry : Like pushing molasses up a sandy hill.