The West Wing (TV Series)

Six Meetings Before Lunch (2000)

Richard Schiff: Toby Ziegler

Quotes 

• Toby Ziegler : Mandy, I feel like I've lost a hundred and eighty pounds. And I'm smiling, I am... laughing. I'm enjoying the people I work with. I've got to snap out of this. What's on your mind?

  Mandy Hampton : I want you to help me get the Chinese to give us a new panda bear to replace Lum-Lum.

  Toby Ziegler : Well, that did the trick.

• Mandy Hampton : I was thinking that it would be a good idea, as a symbol to signal how serious we are about our relationship with China, if we asked them for another bear.

  Toby Ziegler : I think it would be a good idea as a symbol to signal that China is serious about their relationship with us if they stop running over their citizens with tanks.

• Toby Ziegler : Have them send us two

  [panda bears] 

  Toby Ziegler : .

  Mandy Hampton : Second of all, China is not inclined to give us gifts right now.

  Toby Ziegler : Then get us two regular bears, a bucket of black paint, a bucket of white paint, bam-bam. Next case.