The West Wing (TV Series)
Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail (2001)
Janel Moloney: Donna Moss
Quotes
-
Sam Seaborn : Secret Memorandum on the US negotiating stance at Yalta.
Donna Moss : Please stop walking
Sam Seaborn : Good 'cause Stalin needed an advantage, and we wanted a fair fight.
Donna Moss : Sam, nothing good comes from telling her
Sam Seaborn : The truth isn't good?
Donna Moss : Not right now, no. The grandfather is not going to live another 3 months, let it go till then.
Sam Seaborn : I'm not her fairy godmother, she asked me to look into this.
Donna Moss : I'm saying you wait 3 months until...
Sam Seaborn : Hey!
Donna Moss : You're in a bad...
Sam Seaborn : Donna!
Donna Moss : Listen to me! Your in a bad place right now. And you shouldn't make this decision. If you don't tell her tonight, you can tell her tomorrow. If you tell her tonight, that's it.
Sam Seaborn : Donna.
Donna Moss : It was people pushing paper around 50 years ago. Why does it matter?
Sam Seaborn : It was high treason, and it mattered a great deal! This country is an idea, and one that's lit the world for two centuries and treason against that idea is not just a crime against the living! This ground holds the graves of people who died for it, who gave what Lincoln called the last full measure of devotion, of fidelity.
Sam Seaborn : You understand that last full measure devotion to, treason against them is.
Donna Moss : Sam...
Sam Seaborn : There was translator in the Hungarian Trade mission named Shabademschki, she was murdered in 1952. She was about to reveal the name of a soviet agent called Blackwater.
-
[the West Wing staffers have started trying to trade their assignments for "Big Block of Cheese Day"]
Larry : Excuse me, C.J., I got NIH research funding for cancer treatment using shark cartilage, if you want to trade.
Ed : I'll take that.
Larry : What do you got?
Ed : Citizens for D.C. Statehood.
Larry : Forget it.
Donna Moss : I've got the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Society, but I'm keeping it.
Leo McGarry : You're all keeping it. I'm sure Margaret worked long and hard to make sure that the appropriate petitioner went to the appropriate staffer.
[Margaret, standing behind Leo, shakes her head 'no'. Leo turns around, and she nods her head 'yes']