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* Mulready gets a CMOA in virtually every scene. His interview with President Bartlet, where he essentially dares him to appoint someone who is not safe, middle-of-the-road choice, but instead someone who is visionary whose interpretation of law will last into the decades, is another.
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Stackhouse, age 78, with a head cold, stands up without leaning on anything and talks non-stop for over 9 hours straight to stop the passage of a huge health care bill that does not have the amendment he wants on Autism, because his grandson has autism.
Stackhouse, age 78, with a head cold, stands up without leaning on anything and talks non-stop for over 9 hours straight to stop the passage of a huge health care bill that does not have the amendment he wants on Autism, because his grandson has autism.
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* In the episode "Privateers", Abbey asks Amy to "Save me" from a woman who's about to have a go at her over an issue. By "Save me", she means she wants Amy to walk her in the opposite direction. Amy opts to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH_8o3irM7U#t=2m04s casually tear the woman apart in about four sentences]] instead.
* In the episode "Privateers", Abbey asks Amy to "Save me" from a woman who's about to have a go at her over an issue. By "Save me", she means she wants Amy to walk her in the opposite direction. Amy opts to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH_8o3irM7U#t=2m04s casually tear the woman apart in about four sentences]] instead.
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** This moment was so awesome that it actually inspired Will Bailey's first Awesome Moment, when he cites it to Toby as one of the reasons to radically redefine American foreign policy so they can go stop a massive African genocide.
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--> '''Charlie''': This is Miss Cregg. She's the White House Press Secretary and senior counselor to the President. And if she wasn't, she would ''still'' be Miss Cregg. I don't mind you're not respecting people. I mind you're doing it out loud. I mind you're doing it in this building. You want to be a punk, fine. But I don't think you've got the size for it. You want to go to juvy, get out, deal and kill cops, ok. But every time you do a crime, you get caught. So I think you're gonna have to do something else. Nine o'clock on Saturday mornings, I eat breakfast at Cosmo's on Delaware. I come here for an hour, do office work, and then I go to St. Jude's for an hour to play basketball. You can go to juvy, or you can be at Cosmo's, nine o'clock on Saturday morning. It's entirely up to you.
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--> '''Charlie''': This is Miss Cregg. She's the White House Press Secretary and senior counselor to the President. And if she wasn't, she would ''still'' be Miss Cregg. I don't mind you're your not respecting people. I mind you're your doing it out loud. I mind you're your doing it in this building. You want to be a punk, fine. But I don't think you've got the size for it. You want to go to juvy, get out, deal and kill cops, ok. But every time you do a crime, you get caught. So I think you're gonna have to do something else. Nine o'clock on Saturday mornings, I eat breakfast at Cosmo's on Delaware. I come here for an hour, do office work, and then I go to St. Jude's for an hour to play basketball. You can go to juvy, or you can be at Cosmo's, nine o'clock on Saturday morning. It's entirely up to you.
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** Oh and now it just rolls on with both Rahm Emanuel and Leon Panetta being more major politicians under Obama (With Rahm Emanuel now being mayor of Chicago, and Leon Panetta switching from the CIA of Sec. defense).
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** Oh and now it just rolls on with both Rahm Emanuel and Leon Panetta being more major politicians under Obama (With Rahm Emanuel now being mayor of Chicago, and Leon Panetta switching from the CIA of to the Sec. of defense).
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* In "17 People", he takes the President to task over his failure to reveal his MS:
-->'''Bartlet:''' Toby's concerned that the peaceful solution I brokered in Kashmir last year was the result of a drug-induced haze.
-->'''Leo:''' I was there with him. So was Fitz. So was Cashman, Hutchinson, Berryhill...
-->'''Toby:''' Well, that's fantastic.
-->'''Leo:''' Toby.
-->'''Toby:''' None of you were elected!
-->'''Bartlet:''' I was elected, they were appointed. The Vice President was elected. He has the constitutional authority to assume my--
-->'''Toby:''' Not last May. He didn't last May when you were under general anesthesia.
-->'''Bartlet:''' That's because I never signed the letter, but I don't think I got shot because I got MS.
-->'''Toby:''' No, I don't think you did either, sir. I meant that during a night of extreme chaos and fear when we didn't yet know if we'd been the victims of domestic or foreign terrorism, or even an act of war there was uncertainty as to who was giving the national security orders and it was because you never signed the letter. So I'm led to wonder, given your condition and it’s lack of predictability why there isn’t simply a signed letter sitting in a file someplace. And the answer, of course, is that [chuckles] if there was a-a signed letter sitting in a file someplace, somebody would ask why. The Commander in Chief had just been attacked, he was under a general anesthetic, a fugitive was at large, the manhunt included every federal state and local law enforcement agency. The Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware National Guard units were federalized. The KH-10s showed Republican Guard movement in southern Iraq. And 12 hours earlier an F-117 was shot down in the no-fly, and the Vice President's authority was murky at best. The National Security Advisor and the Secretary of State didn't know who they were taking their orders from. I wasn't in the Situation Room that night, but I'll bet all the money in my pockets against all the money in your pockets that it was Leo. Who no one elected! For 90 minutes that night, there was a coup d'état in this country.
-->'''Bartlet:''' Toby's concerned that the peaceful solution I brokered in Kashmir last year was the result of a drug-induced haze.
-->'''Leo:''' I was there with him. So was Fitz. So was Cashman, Hutchinson, Berryhill...
-->'''Toby:''' Well, that's fantastic.
-->'''Leo:''' Toby.
-->'''Toby:''' None of you were elected!
-->'''Bartlet:''' I was elected, they were appointed. The Vice President was elected. He has the constitutional authority to assume my--
-->'''Toby:''' Not last May. He didn't last May when you were under general anesthesia.
-->'''Bartlet:''' That's because I never signed the letter, but I don't think I got shot because I got MS.
-->'''Toby:''' No, I don't think you did either, sir. I meant that during a night of extreme chaos and fear when we didn't yet know if we'd been the victims of domestic or foreign terrorism, or even an act of war there was uncertainty as to who was giving the national security orders and it was because you never signed the letter. So I'm led to wonder, given your condition and it’s lack of predictability why there isn’t simply a signed letter sitting in a file someplace. And the answer, of course, is that [chuckles] if there was a-a signed letter sitting in a file someplace, somebody would ask why. The Commander in Chief had just been attacked, he was under a general anesthetic, a fugitive was at large, the manhunt included every federal state and local law enforcement agency. The Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware National Guard units were federalized. The KH-10s showed Republican Guard movement in southern Iraq. And 12 hours earlier an F-117 was shot down in the no-fly, and the Vice President's authority was murky at best. The National Security Advisor and the Secretary of State didn't know who they were taking their orders from. I wasn't in the Situation Room that night, but I'll bet all the money in my pockets against all the money in your pockets that it was Leo. Who no one elected! For 90 minutes that night, there was a coup d'état in this country.
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* In a Season two episode,a Religous pundit based on Dr Laura Schlessinger calls Homosexuality an Abomination.Bartlet responds by perfectly reciting biblical passages which have been discontinued such as Death for those who work on the Sabbath and stoning those who wear clothes with two different threads.Culminating in a truly Awesome line: "In the White House,when the President stands,Nobody sits".
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*Her first appearance begins with her being looked down upon for being a BlondeRepublicanSexKitten, and put up against Sam Seaborn on national TV, She immediately destroys him. Whether or not you agree with her politics or not, one of the most awesome moments in TV history for pretty blonde women.
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* "In Excelsis Deo":
-->'''Bartlet:''' What’s going on?
-->'''Toby:''' A homeless man died last night; a Korean War veteran, who was wearing a coat that I gave to the Goodwill. It had my card in it.
-->'''Bartlet:''' Toby, you’re not responsible for …
-->'''Toby:''' An hour and twenty minutes for the ambulance to get there. A Lance Corporal, United States Marine Corps, Second of the Seventh. The guy got better treatment at Panmunjom.
-->'''Bartlet:''' Toby, if we start pulling strings like this, you don’t think every homeless veteran would come out of the woodworks?
-->'''Toby:''' I can only hope, sir.
* "He Shall, from Time to Time". In respect to a line in the State of the Union speech:
-->'''Bartlet:''' What's on your mind?
-->'''Toby:''' The era of big government is over.
-->'''Bartlet:''' You want to cut the line?
-->'''Toby:''' I want to change the sentiment. [pause] We're running away from ourselves and I know we can score points that way, I was a principle architect of that campaign strategy right along with you, Josh. But we're here now, tomorrow night we do an immense thing; we have to say what we feel, that government, no matter what it's failures in the past and in times to come for that matter, government can be a place where people come together and where no one gets left behind. No one...gets left behind. An instrument of good.
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-->'''Bartlet:''' What’s going on?
-->'''Toby:''' A homeless man died last night; a Korean War veteran, who was wearing a coat that I gave to the Goodwill. It had my card in it.
-->'''Bartlet:''' Toby, you’re not responsible for …
-->'''Toby:''' An hour and twenty minutes for the ambulance to get there. A Lance Corporal, United States Marine Corps, Second of the Seventh. The guy got better treatment at Panmunjom.
-->'''Bartlet:''' Toby, if we start pulling strings like this, you don’t think every homeless veteran would come out of the woodworks?
-->'''Toby:''' I can only hope, sir.
* "He Shall, from Time to Time". In respect to a line in the State of the Union speech:
-->'''Bartlet:''' What's on your mind?
-->'''Toby:''' The era of big government is over.
-->'''Bartlet:''' You want to cut the line?
-->'''Toby:''' I want to change the sentiment. [pause] We're running away from ourselves and I know we can score points that way, I was a principle architect of that campaign strategy right along with you, Josh. But we're here now, tomorrow night we do an immense thing; we have to say what we feel, that government, no matter what it's failures in the past and in times to come for that matter, government can be a place where people come together and where no one gets left behind. No one...gets left behind. An instrument of good.
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* In "Let Bartlet Be Bartlet", when discussing the policy on homosexual people serving in the military:
--> '''Major Tate:''' Sir, we're not prejudiced toward homosexuals.
--> '''Admiral Percy Fitzwallace:''' You just don't want to see them serving in the Armed Forces?
--> '''Major Tate:''' No sir, I don't.
--> '''Admiral Percy Fitzwallace:''' 'Cause they impose a threat to unit discipline and cohesion.
--> '''Major Tate:''' Yes, sir.
--> '''Admiral Percy Fitzwallace:''' That's what I think, too. I also think the military wasn't designed to be an instrument of social change.
--> '''Major Tate:''' Yes, sir.
--> '''Admiral Percy Fitzwallace:''' The problem with that is that what they were saying to me 50 years ago. Blacks shouldn't serve with whites. It would disrupt the unit. You know what? It did disrupt the unit. The unit got over it. The unit changed. I'm an admiral in the United States Navy and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff... Beat that with a stick.
* In "Let Bartlet Be Bartlet", when discussing the policy on homosexual people serving in the military:
--> '''Major Tate:''' Sir, we're not prejudiced toward homosexuals.
--> '''Admiral Percy Fitzwallace:''' You just don't want to see them serving in the Armed Forces?
--> '''Major Tate:''' No sir, I don't.
--> '''Admiral Percy Fitzwallace:''' 'Cause they impose a threat to unit discipline and cohesion.
--> '''Major Tate:''' Yes, sir.
--> '''Admiral Percy Fitzwallace:''' That's what I think, too. I also think the military wasn't designed to be an instrument of social change.
--> '''Major Tate:''' Yes, sir.
--> '''Admiral Percy Fitzwallace:''' The problem with that is that what they were saying to me 50 years ago. Blacks shouldn't serve with whites. It would disrupt the unit. You know what? It did disrupt the unit. The unit got over it. The unit changed. I'm an admiral in the United States Navy and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff... Beat that with a stick.
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* In ''Disaster Relief'', Josh has been relieved of many of his responsibilities and Leo in particular is freezing him out, all as a result of a recent high profile screw-up by Josh. As he sits in his office, depressed and aimless with nothing to do - which is pretty much the worst thing that can happen to a compulsive over-acheiver like Josh - Donna brings in a battered-looking box and starts unpacking it one folder at a time, saying the name of each folder as she puts it on his desk. When Josh asks what she's doing, she explains that these are all the important but not earth-shatteringly important things that usually get put aside because he's too busy to work on them.
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* In ''Disaster Relief'', Josh has been relieved of many of his responsibilities and Leo in particular is freezing him out, all as a result of a recent high profile screw-up by Josh. As he sits in his office, depressed and aimless with nothing to do - which is pretty much the worst thing that can happen to a compulsive over-acheiver like Josh - Donna brings in a battered-looking box and starts unpacking it one folder at a time, saying the name of each folder as she puts it on his desk. When Josh asks what she's doing, she explains that these are all the important but not earth-shatteringly important things that usually get put aside because he's too busy to work on them.
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What makes this so awesome is not that she's being supportive - lots of Josh's friends have done that. It's that she supports Josh by finding him a way that he can still be Josh.
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* In ''Disaster Relief'', Josh has been relieved of many of his responsibilities and Leo in particular is freezing him out, all as a result of a recent high profile screw-up by Josh. As he sits in his office, depressed and aimless with nothing to do - which is pretty much the worst thing that can happen to a compulsive over-acheiver like Josh - Donna brings in a battered-looking box and starts unpacking it one folder at a time, saying the name of each folder as she puts it on his desk. When Josh asks what she's doing, she explains that these are all the important but not earth-shatteringly important things that usually get put aside because he's too busy to work on them.
* In ''Disaster Relief'', Josh has been relieved of many of his responsibilities and Leo in particular is freezing him out, all as a result of a recent high profile screw-up by Josh. As he sits in his office, depressed and aimless with nothing to do - which is pretty much the worst thing that can happen to a compulsive over-acheiver like Josh - Donna brings in a battered-looking box and starts unpacking it one folder at a time, saying the name of each folder as she puts it on his desk. When Josh asks what she's doing, she explains that these are all the important but not earth-shatteringly important things that usually get put aside because he's too busy to work on them.
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--> "Now, I'm supposed to be using this time for a question, so here it is: Can we have itback, please?" To quote the staff... GAME ON!
back please?"
--> "Now, I'm supposed to be using this time for a question, so here it is: Can we have it
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* "Mandatory Minimums": an irate senator, furious about a speech President Bartlet is making and promising to his staff that he'll launch a legislative agenda that will completely cripple the President, calls Josh.
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* "Mandatory Minimums": an irate senator, furious about a speech President Bartlet is making and promising to his staff that he'll launch a legislative agenda that will completely cripple the President, calls Josh. Toby and Sam are trying to help brace him for the threatening call he's about to receive when the phone rings.
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-->'''Josh''': Turns out I was fine.
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** That entire episode was a CMOA. Not only do they manage to get the extremely left-wing judge that they wanted appointed to the Supreme Court, but they also get Mulready, who's about as close to an AffablyEvil MagnificentBastard as a judge can get. The fact that he and their judge are [[FriendlyEnemy Friendly Enemies]] who get along very well, and will both contribute great debate to the Supreme Court's decisions only makes it better.
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* From "20 Hours in America, Part 2". C.J. has been trying to find a new "Big Brother" for a delinquent teenager, Anthony, whose previous mentor was [[spoiler:killed at the end of Season 3]]. She had approached Charlie once before; Charlie had declined because of his busy work schedule. However, he changes his mind during the following scene:
--> '''C.J.''': I can take you home now.
--> '''Anthony''': [under his breath] I don't need a babysitter.
--> [Charlie passes by on his way somewhere.]
--> '''C.J.''': I'm sorry?
--> '''Anthony''': I said I don't need a babysitter, bitch. Are you deaf?
--> [Charlie turns around.]
--> '''C.J.''': [timid] Well, I don't think you do need a babysitter, I-
--> [Without stopping, Charlie grabs Anthony by the collar and pins him against the wall.]
--> '''Anthony''': Yo, what the hell's the matter with you, dog?!
--> '''Charlie''': This is Miss Cregg. She's the White House Press Secretary and senior counselor to the President. And if she wasn't, she would ''still'' be Miss Cregg. I don't mind you're not respecting people. I mind you're doing it out loud. I mind you're doing it in this building. You want to be a punk, fine. But I don't think you've got the size for it. You want to go to juvy, get out, deal and kill cops, ok. But every time you do a crime, you get caught. So I think you're gonna have to do something else. Nine o'clock on Saturday mornings, I eat breakfast at Cosmo's on Delaware. I come here for an hour, do office work, and then I go to St. Jude's for an hour to play basketball. You can go to juvy, or you can be at Cosmo's, nine o'clock on Saturday morning. It's entirely up to you.
--> [Charlie turns and walks away.]
--> '''C.J.''': I can take you home now.
--> '''Anthony''': [under his breath] I don't need a babysitter.
--> [Charlie passes by on his way somewhere.]
--> '''C.J.''': I'm sorry?
--> '''Anthony''': I said I don't need a babysitter, bitch. Are you deaf?
--> [Charlie turns around.]
--> '''C.J.''': [timid] Well, I don't think you do need a babysitter, I-
--> [Without stopping, Charlie grabs Anthony by the collar and pins him against the wall.]
--> '''Anthony''': Yo, what the hell's the matter with you, dog?!
--> '''Charlie''': This is Miss Cregg. She's the White House Press Secretary and senior counselor to the President. And if she wasn't, she would ''still'' be Miss Cregg. I don't mind you're not respecting people. I mind you're doing it out loud. I mind you're doing it in this building. You want to be a punk, fine. But I don't think you've got the size for it. You want to go to juvy, get out, deal and kill cops, ok. But every time you do a crime, you get caught. So I think you're gonna have to do something else. Nine o'clock on Saturday mornings, I eat breakfast at Cosmo's on Delaware. I come here for an hour, do office work, and then I go to St. Jude's for an hour to play basketball. You can go to juvy, or you can be at Cosmo's, nine o'clock on Saturday morning. It's entirely up to you.
--> [Charlie turns and walks away.]
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-->'''President Bartlet''': You'll denounce these people, Al. You'll do it publicly. And until you do, you can all get your fat asses out of my White House.
House. CJ, show these people out.
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* There's that marvelous scene in the first half of In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, when Josh sees Bartlet in action for the first time, explaining in a town hall meeting why he voted against a bill that would have helped local dairy farmers:
* There's that marvelous scene in the first half of In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, when Josh sees Bartlet in action for the first time, explaining in a town hall meeting why he voted against a bill that would have helped local dairy farmers:
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* There's that marvelous scene in the first half ofIn "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Gunmen," when Josh sees Bartlet in action for the first time, explaining in a town hall meeting why he voted against a bill that would have helped local dairy farmers:
* There's that marvelous scene in the first half of
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--->'''President Bartlet''' (entering): I am the Lord your God, thou shalt worship no other God before me.
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'''[++[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/CrowningMomentOfAwesome/TheWestWing This page has been put to crowner]]++]'''
So go to the crowner and submit and vote for the moment that won the character labelled ''your'' eternal loyalty as a fan. Remember, it's a subjective matter. People have different levels for why they will attach to a character, for what they consider impressive and for how that scene impressed on them. You're looking for that one moment for each character where the ''start'' of a beautiful fandom began.
So go to the crowner and submit and vote for the moment that won the character labelled ''your'' eternal loyalty as a fan. Remember, it's a subjective matter. People have different levels for why they will attach to a character, for what they consider impressive and for how that scene impressed on them. You're looking for that one moment for each character where the ''start'' of a beautiful fandom began.
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*First, his entrance line,
--->'''John Van Dyke''': Then what is the first commandment?
--->'''President Bartlet''' (entering): I am the Lord your God, thou shalt worship no other God before me.
He goes on to verbally bitchslap a group of arrogant [[StrawmanPolitical Religious Right]] pundits, telling them how an extreme Christian group sent his granddaughter a doll with a knife stuck through its throat after she gave an interview discussing her views on abortion:
--->'''President Bartlet''': You'll denounce these people, Al. You'll do it publicly. And until you do, you can all get your fat asses out of my White House.
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* Religion is popular CMOA fodder for President Bartlet; being a devout Catholic, he doesn't have patience for StrawmanPolitical religious forces. His smackdown to
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* There's the scene in "Two Cathedrals" when, standing alone in National Cathedral, he bitterly condemns ''[[SmiteMeOhMightySmiter God himself]]'' in untranslated, unsubtitled Latin
* "Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc" ends with an American plane being shot down by Syria; on board was President Bartlet's physician, of whom he was very fond. Leo, who's former military, is worried that the militarily inexperienced President is scared, but his response terrifies ''Leo''.
--> '''President Bartlet''': I am not frightened. I am going to blow them off the face of the Earth with the fury of God's own thunder.
* His RedemptionInTheRain scene in "Two Cathedrals": in the middle of a powerful thunderstorm, and to the
-->'''President Bartlet''' (casually): Yeah. And I'm gonna win. ([[YouShouldKnowThisAlready He does.]])
* In his campaign for re-election, Bartlet gives several opportunities for a crowning moment, so let's consider them together.
** President Bartlet [[IsThisThingStillOn insults Ritchie on an open mike]], which sends the staff into paroxysms, but the Ritchie staff bungles the situation so badly that everyone comes out thinking the President was right. Only CJ figures out that the President did it on purpose.
** The debate: Ritchie opens saying that the President will attempt to justify increased taxes and
-->'''President Bartlet''': Well, first of all, let's clear up a couple of things. "Unfunded mandate" is two words, not one big word.
*** As his staff looks on in awe, the President continues to wallop his ass. As summed up by CJ: "That's not Uncle Fluffy."
* "In the future, if you're wondering, "Crime. Boy, I don't know," is when I decided to kick your ass."
* There's President Bartlet's decision to accept a congressional censure:
--->'''President Bartlet''': There's another reason... I was wrong. I was, I was just... I was wrong. Come on, you know that. Lots of times we don't know what right or wrong is but lots of times we do and come on, this is one. I may not have had sinister intent at the outset but there were plenty of opportunities for me to make it right. No one in government takes responsibility for anything anymore. We foster, we obfuscate, we rationalize. "Everybody does it." That's what we say. So we come to occupy a moral safe house where everyone's to blame so no one's guilty. I'm to blame. I was wrong.
* The episode "In The Room" Bartlet shuts everyone up with six words: "This plane is going to China!" Did we mention he was paralyzed from the neck down when he said it? Followed by a heartbreaking moment of dignity when he [[spoiler: pushes his own wheelchair in to the press briefing]].
* There's that marvelous scene in the first half of In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, when Josh sees Bartlet in action for the first time, explaining in a town hall meeting why he voted against a bill that would have helped local dairy farmers:
---> "Today for the first time in history, the largest group of Americans living in poverty are children. 1 in 5 children live in the most abject, dangerous, hopeless, back-breaking, gut-wrenching poverty any of us could imagine. 1 in 5, and they're children. If fidelity to freedom of democracy is the code of our civic religion then surely the code of our humanity is faithful service to that unwritten commandment that says we shall give our children better than we ourselves received. Let me put it this way: I voted against the bill because I didn't want to make it harder for people to buy milk. I stopped some money from flowing into your pocket. If that angers you, if you resent me, I completely respect that. But if you expect anything different from the President of the United States, you should vote for someone else."
!!President Bartlet/ Leo [=McGarry=]
* In episode 19, "Let Bartlet Be Bartlet," the
Leo, thrilled to see his friend re-energized and upbeat again, goes back to his office and tells the previously downcast staff that they are going to make some radical changes, and no longer toe the line. The whole staff returns to the enthusiasm they had at the beginning of the year, and strike out with newfound purpose, not five minutes after everything seemed at its bleakest. Cue audience fist-pumping.
!!President Bartlet / Josh:
* Josh and President Bartlet share credit for "Shutdown." The Republican-controlled Congress has managed get the Federal Government shut down for having no budget, and everybody blames the President. Josh, bouncing back from his funk, convinces the President to ''walk'' to Congress, stopping to commiserate with tourists. This flusters the Speaker of the House so much that he huddles with his allies for what feels like hours as the President cools his heels in the lobby. You can feel the public opinion shifting. When the President's delegation leaves before the Speaker manages to stick his head out of his conference room, it's all over for the Speaker.
!!Christopher Mulready
* Newly-minted, conservative, Justice Mulready's conversation with Charlie at the end about affirmative action:
--->'''Charlie''': "...affirmative action's about a legacy of racial oppression."
--->'''Justice Mulready''': "It's about compromising admissions standards."
--->'''Charlie''': "That's bull --- Excuse me. It's about leveling the playing field after 300 years---"
--->'''Justice Mulready''': "See, this is where the liberal argument goes off the rails. You get stuck in the past. Now, you want to come back at me with: Grading is based on past performance, but admission should be based on potential and how a candidate may thrive with this sort of opportunity. And studies show that affirmative action admits have a higher disposition to contribute to society."
--->'''Charlie''': "Hang on, I've got to write this down."
* His introduction has him debating Toby on the Defense of Marriage Act, Toby's every position against the act being questioned and challenged and when Toby gets riled up into ad hominem attacks (as he is wont to) Mulready reveals that he's against the act but for different reasons and wanted to make sure it was supported for the right reasons (plus it's fun to mess with Toby).
!!President Bartlet / Charlie
* A smaller-scale and subtle moment, but no less awesome thanks to FridgeBrilliance: In "Stirred," President Bartlet does Charlie's tax return. Think about that for a second: not only is the President the kind of guy who will happily do one of his employees' tax return for him--he says he actually enjoys it--but Charlie has managed to persuade ''the President of the United States, a Nobel Laureate in economics, to do his taxes''.
** That plot turns into a rolling snowball of awesome when the president finishes the return:
--->'''Charlie''': They're saying I owe the federal government money?
--->'''President Bartlet''': And you don't even need a stamp. Hand it over.
--->'''Charlie''': There's a mistake.
--->'''President Bartlet''': Whatever. Cough it up.
*** By the end of the episode, though, the President tells Charlie he's so impressed how much Charlie gave to charity, he's making him a gift of the DVD player Charlie was going to buy with his tax refund.
* The CMOA for their relationship: After sending Charlie on an exhaustive hunt for the just-perfect knives, he offers his set to Charlie as a gift. Charlie doesn't recognize the insignia "PR". Bartlet tells him they were made by Paul Revere and belonged to Bartlet's great-great-grandfather. Who gave them to his great-grandfather, who gave them to his grandfather, who gave them to his father, who gave them to Bartlet. And one day Charlie will give them to his son.
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!!C.J. Cregg
* C.J. Cregg gets her CMOA in a third-season episode in which a White House social function is interrupted by news of a terrorist bombing in the Middle East which kills two American students. An entertainment reporter is covering the evening. C.J. changes from evening wear to business wear and stonewalls the press until POTUS can speak with the dead boys' parents. The entertainment reporter's story implies that C.J. (1) didn't know what was going on, and (2) was more concerned with changing her clothes. Later in the Press Room, C.J. completely humiliates the reporter by exposing her ignorance of veto override procedure and the number of Representatives in Congress, advising her to "get the notes from a classmate". The reporter confronts her afterwards:
--->'''C.J.''': I changed my clothes because I didn't think it was appropriate to talk about the death of two teenagers while wearing a ball gown, and you knew that. Because you're stupid, but you're ''not'' stupid, you know what I'm saying? Security's going to take your press credentials. You'll call my office every day and I'll decide if you get into the room. I'm taking your spot on Pebble Beach. You can do your stand-ups from Lafayette Park.
--->'''Sherri''': Who the hell...
--->'''C.J.''': One more word out of your mouth and every local station in town but yours gets an exclusive with the President. Hunting season on me is over.
--->'''Sherri''': *purses her lips and stomps away*
--->'''C.J.''': And the chemical abbreviation for table salt is [=NaCl=].
* From "In The Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part II":
-->"Obviously there’s one story that’s gonna be dominating the news around the world for the next few days. And it would be easy to think that President Bartlet, Joshua Lyman, and Stephanie Abbott were the only people who were victims of a gun crime last night. They weren't. Mark Davis and Sheila Evans of Philadelphia were killed by a gun last night. He was a biology teacher and she was a nursing student. Tina Bishop and Belinda Larkin were killed with a gun last night. They were twelve. There were thirty-six homicides last night. 480 sexual assaults. 3411 robberies. 3685 aggravated assaults. All at gun point. And if anyone thinks those crimes could have been prevented if the victims themselves had been carrying guns, I’d only remind you that the President of the United States was shot last night while surrounded by the best trained guards in the history of the world."
* In "Ways and Means." Bartlet had revealed his MS and a special prosecutor had been appointed to investigate whether he had done anything illegal by covering it up during the campaign. The special prosecutor was a calm and deliberate guy, and C.J. realized it would be better for them to have an opponent who would come after them out of pure spite (so it would seem more like a partisan attack) - like, say, the Republican-controlled Congress. She starts dropping hints to the press about how much they respect the special prosecutor, to the point that even Democrats were asking her not to seem quite so eager to work "with" him. After a few days of C.J. playing basically the entire country, Congress gets fed up and says they're not going to wait for Bartlet's "hand-picked" special prosecutor and are going to start holding hearings - just like C.J. wanted.
!!Leo [=McGarry=]
* In "A Proportional Response," President Bartlet wants a much stronger response to the shooting down of an American jet than the "proportional response" his advisers recommend, but Leo sets him straight:
-->'''Leo''': You think ratcheting up the body count's gonna act as a deterrent?
-->'''President Bartlet''': You're damn right I...
-->'''Leo''': Then you are just as stupid as these guys who think capital punishment is going to be a deterrent for drug kingpins. As if drug kingpins didn't live their day to day lives under the possibility of execution, and their executions are a lot less dainty than ours and tend to take place without the bother and expense of due process. So, my friend, if you want to start using American military strength as the arm of the Lord, you can do that. We're the only superpower left. You can conquer the world, like Charlemagne. But you better be prepared to kill everyone. And you better start with me, because I will raise up an army against you and I will beat you.
* Due to the timing, probably one of the defining moments for the character
He knocks it out of the park.
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!!Josh Lyman
* "Mandatory Minimums": an irate senator, furious about a speech President Bartlet is making and promising to his staff that he'll launch a legislative agenda that will completely cripple the President, calls Josh.
-->'''Josh''': Hi Senator, why don't you take your legislative agenda and shove it up your ass? ''hangs up''
-->'''Crowd''' (reacting to the President's speech): ''wild applause''
* To a Democratic congressman voting against the President's gun control bill:
-->"See, you won with 52 percent, but the President took your district with 59. And I think it's
!!Sam Seaborn
* "The Short List": Sam vets a potential Supreme Court justice.
-->'''Sam''': In 1787, there was a sizable block of delegates who were initially opposed to the Bill of Rights. This is what a member of the Georgia delegation had to say by way of opposition; 'If we list a set of rights, some fools in the future are going to claim that people are entitled only to those rights enumerated and no others.' So the Framers knew...
-->'''Harrison''': Were you just calling me a fool, Mr. Seaborn?
-->'''Sam''': I wasn't calling you a fool, sir. The brand new state of Georgia was.
* In the episode "Six Meetings Before Lunch", after Mallory O'Brian has been badgering him all day about a position he doesn't even really hold, he's bailed out by Leo (who reveals the truth) before Sam turns to Mallory and says:
-->"Mallory, education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That's my position. I just haven't figured out how to do it yet."
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!!Matt Santos/ Arnold Vinick
* The debate between Santos and Vinick in the seventh season had enough awesome for both of them. It was, in essence, a 1 hour long CMOA for the series which refused to not let each side of the campaign get their moments.
* Santos and Vinick share a CMOA even after the campaign, when President-elect [[spoiler:Santos]] offers [[spoiler:Vinick]] a job as his [[spoiler:Secretary of State]].
!!Will Bailey
* Will Bailey shattering a glass window with Toby's pink superball in rage, after years of Toby doing the same thing with no effect.
--> Toby: "That window's a game-day player."
--> (later)
--> Josh: "[Will's] really that invested in this?" *shatter*
** Also sets up a BrickJoke - later, when the window has been repaired, Will steps into his office, notices it, and gently touches the (unsecured) glass. HilarityEnsues
* His response to a snotty reporter during a press conference, who asks why Will's keeping the campaign alive when his candidate's dead.
-->'''Will Bailey''': Chuck Webb, a seven-term Congressman who is chairman of not one but two Congress subcommittees, has taken money from companies he regulates. He's on the board of the NRA and once challenged another congressman to a fistfight on the floor over an amendment to make stalkers submit to background checks before buying AR-15s, AK-57s, streetsweepers, MAC-10s, MAC-11s. He has joined protests designed to frighten pregnant women.
-->'''Reporter''': What's your point?
-->'''Will Bailey''': There are worse things in the world than no longer being alive.
* Will calling down a rainstorm to help get his now living impared candidate elected over his fully armed and operational opponent.
!!Matt Santos
* Matt Santos, in the only commercial his meagre fundraising efforts in New Hampshire can afford:
--->'''Santos''': Good evening. I'm running for President and if you don't know know who I am, I wouldn't be surprised. I've been shut out of tomorrow night's debate for suggesting that it actually be a debate and this is the only ad I can afford. I got in this to improve a broken school system, to fix entitlement because they're going bankrupt, to expand health coverage because it will save money if fewer people in up in emergency rooms. What I found is that Presidential campaigns aren't about these things. They're about clawing your opponents' eyes out as long as you don't get tagged for it. So how about this: I will never say anything about my opponents or anything about anything without saying it myself, right into the camera. You might not get to hear much of me but when you do, you'll know I stand by it. I'm Matt Santos and you better believe I approve this ad.
!!The Democratic members of the House Of Representatives'''
* Let's face it, even the house members in his own party were sometimes a problem for the President and the internal struggles dragged their image down. So they got a collective crowning moment when they surpassed the tricks of the Speaker to avoid a vote with "Operation Sleepover".
!!Ainsley Hayes
* Her discussion with her radical Republican friends after her introductory episode, after they assume she did not take the job.
-->'''Man''': Did you meet anyone there who isn't worthless?
-->'''Ainsley''': Don't say that.
-->'''Man''': Did you meet anyone there who has any - ?
-->'''Ainsley''': I said don't say that. Say they're smug and superior. Say their approach to public policy makes you want to tear your hair out. Say they like high taxes and spending your money. Say they want to take your guns and open your borders, but don't call them worthless. At least don't do it in front of me. The people that I have met have been extraordinarily qualified. Their intent is good, and their commitment is true. They are righteous, and they are patriots. And ''I'm their lawyer.''
!!Charlie Young
* From the 19th episode of the fourth season, after a few shots are fired at the White House, everyone is being held where they were by Secret Service agents.
--> '''President Bartlet''': Where's Charlie?
--> '''Leo''': He's somewhere in the building.
--> '''Ron Buterfield''': We're holding people where they are right now.
--> '''Bartlet''': But if he's heard what happened he's gonna be trying to get here.
--> '''Butterfield''': We've got to hold everyone for a moment so we can secure the -
--> '''Bartlet''': No, I'm telling you that if Charlie heard there were bullets he's gonna overpower whoever's trying to -
--> [Charlie bursts in.]
--> '''Charlie''': Sorry, Mr. President.
!!Meta Awesome (spoilers)
* Not only did the showrunners base Matt Santos on BarackObama - ''in 2004'' - the real-life Josh (Rahm Emanuel) succeeded the real-life Leo (Leon Panetta) as Chief of Staff, and Santos offered opponent Vinick the position of Secretary of State, as Obama did for opponent HillaryClinton. Keep in mind that the show had its finale in '''''2006'''''.
