President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.