#josiah bartlet

[userobiwan]

THE WEST WING (1999-2006) 2x22: TWO CATHEDRALS

There's a tropical storm that's gaining speed and power. They say we haven't had a storm this bad since You took out that tender ship of mine in the North Atlantic last year. Sixty-eight crew. You know what a tender ship does? Fixes the other ships. It doesn't even carry guns. It just goes around, fixes the other ships and delivers the mail. That's all it can do. Gratias tibi ago, Domine Yes, I lied. It was a sin. I've committed many sins. Have I displeased You, You feckless thug?

[warriorxena]

THE WEST WING | 1.04 'FIVE VOTES DOWN' | 10.13.99 Martin Sheen as Josiah Bartlet Richard Schiff as Toby Ziegler

[joshdonnas]

JED BARTLET AND CHARLIE YOUNG The West Wing ⤑ Guns not Butter (4x12)

requested by @evidenceofthingsnotyetseen

[kosher-toasty]

Hi everyone, since today is Erev Thanksgiving I just wanted to remind you that according to the Hampshirer Rebbe HaRav Yoshiyahu Bartlet it's preferable to call the Butterball hotline before nightfall

[kaboomi]

5.17 The Supremes

“Oh my god, you’re putting my mother’s cats on the Supreme Court.”

[dream-beyond-the-fantasy]

One of my favorite scenes in the pilot of The West Wing is when our main characters are going through with that "apology" meeting with the Christian Right assholes. Toby calls out that bitch Mary Marsh for her antisemitism and that Van Dyke guy for flubbing the order of the Ten Commandments. Enter the President announcing the correct commandment, very calm and respectful, and then he lays into the leaders of this Christian cult group for threatening his granddaughter, a child who used her platform to speak her mind about her reproductive rights.

[lumons]

and i pray you'll remember my name

JED BARTLET / THE WEST WING S1 - S7 REMEMBER MY NAME BY SAM FENDER

[kermit-p-hob-brainrot]

West wing trying to convince me it’s a serious show with this slide show ass intro

[peter-weir]

has there ever been said anything more exhilarating and intimate and stirring as “i want to speak” “say it out loud. say it to me”

[lassie-farce]

Josh: Sam don’t

Toby: Sam don’t

Leo: Sam don’t

Donna: Sam don’t

CJ: Sam don’t

Charlie: Sam don’t

President Bartlet: Sam don’t

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Sam: Sam YES!

[warriorxena]

THE WEST WING | 1.01 'PILOT' | 09.22.99 Richard Schiff as Toby Ziegler Bradley Whitford as Josh Lyman Martin Sheen as Josiah Bartlet

[joshdonnas]

a gifset for every tww episode (in no particular order): inauguration part II: over there (4x15) “We're going to a ball." "Balls are fun." "We're actually going to eight of them." "Eight times the fun." "I was actually the one who hit the window, the rest of them went to school on my throw.”

[dearvoidgoodnight]

Debbie: I hate to do this, but it's Rena, sir.

Jed: What?

Debbie: The girl in the dress?

Jed: Just now?

Debbie: Yes.

Jed: What'd I call her?

Debbie: Lana.

Jed: Who's Lana?

Debbie: I'm guessing an exotic dancer from your spotty youth.

[kaboomi]

Emerging from a college-induced haze to say that while, obviously, we all in the fandom have different views on the post-Sorkin seasons, I personally cannot forgive the egregious crime against characterization that is Season 5 episode 4’s ‘Han.’ Like you are telling me that President Jed ‘allowed the Cuban refugees into the country to give them a chance at the American dream’ Bartlet wouldn’t move heaven and earth to help a North Korean defector? You’re telling me that CJ ‘if politics bring out the worst in people, maybe people bring out the best’ Cregg wouldn’t raise hell (well, even more hell than she did actually raise in the episode) until the guy was safe?? You’re telling me Toby ‘so moralistic he literally sacrifices his career to uphold his own beliefs’ Ziegler wouldn’t criticize Leo and the President until they changed their stances on the matter??? Please. They should’ve helped that pianist and I’m still salty about it.

[dream-beyond-the-fantasy]

Decided to get in a few episodes of The West Wing while I have access to the Blu-ray player and big TV. Near the end of the pilot episode. Sam Seaborn and Josh Lyman remain my faves. My third favorite is President Bartlet.

[rank-sentimentalist]

"It's the price you pay"

MARBURY

Well, um, after speaking at length this past week with your secretaries of state and defense, as well as your joint chiefs and various embassy officials, I believe this. Buy them off.

BARTLET

Buy them?

MARBURY

Yes, sir.

BARTLET

How?

MARBURY

Mr. President, for several centuries, my kingdom has ruled India with a stick and carrot. When we had a particular problem with someone, one solution we would try is to make him a maharaja. That's kind of a regional king. We would pay him off with an annual tribute, and in return, he would be loyal to the crown.

LEO

Lord Marbury, under our Constitution, our President is not empowered to create maharajas.

MARBURY

Yes. Thank you for clearing that up, Leo. Having been educated at Cambridge and the Sorbonne, I am, as you know, exceedingly stupid.

BARTLET

John, please.

MARBURY

You've been paying the world off since the industrial age. Foreign aid, during the Cold War was you paying dictators to be on your side. To this very day, you pay Korea not to develop nuclear weapons.

BARTLET

What does India want?

MARBURY

A computer industry, and for that, they require an infrastructure, and that is what you can give them.

LEO

Why?

MARBURY

It's the price you pay.

LEO

For avoiding a war halfway around the world?

MARBURY

For being rich, free and alive all at the same time, and for the criminally negligent behavior of your Congress in not checking the proliferation of nuclear devices.

BARTLET

Your friend, the prime minister?

MARBURY

Rikki.

BARTLET

He's gonna go for this?

MARBURY

If it's handled properly.

BARTLET

All right, you tell the ambassador we'll discuss this in three months. In three months, John. I don't want this to be like quid pro quo.

MARBURY

Yes, sir.

BARTLET

That's the carrot. Leo, what's the stick?

LEO

In the next 24 hours, we want to see recon photos of Indian divisions retreating. If we don't, we're gonna seize Indian assets and so will our NATO allies, and G-7's gonna call in its loans.

BARTLET

They put command-control in the field, John, and we're gonna get physical. You make damn sure they know that.

MARBURY

Well, then, uh, I have my instructions.

The three of them stand.

BARTLET

Talk to the ambassador. I want Fitzwallace to have photos in 24 hours.

MARBURY

Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. [leaves]

THE WEST WING

'HE SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME...'

WRITTEN BY: AARON SORKIN

DIRECTED BY: ARLENE SANFORD