"You know, President Bartlet once said, that when we won the 1998 election, we were really going to own this [White House] place. You know, a few years later, I felt the same..."
-Machinations: My Life in Washington, by Josh Lyman
"When Josh flew down to Houston and asked me to run, I thought I was going to do it so that I could build schools and hospitals. Now, I'm going into office so that I can maneuver a military presence in a 1.052 million square mile hunk of oil-rich land in the middle of Central Asia..."
-Matt Santos' diary
"Now that we were leaving, I, um... I didn't really know what to do with myself. I wasn't depressed, I was just a bit aimless. Ex-Presidents don't really have much of a say in anything."
-Jed Bartlet, in a [private] interview with Bob Woodward
"You know, suffice it to say, it didn't really feel like DEFCON One when we came in. I mean, sure, people were a bit unnerved, but life went on as usual. We weren't raiding supermarkets for toilet paper. Frankly, while the thought was far from unthinkable, the atmosphere did not resemble the edge of abyss."
-Louise Thornton's notes
"I was a bit disappointed when Santos chose the other guy over Harper [for NSA]. But I shouldn't have been surprised. He may have been in the military, and trust me I saw his service record, but he didn't care for the Kazakh issue. He wanted to dissociate himself with the planners, save for Ms Cregg."
-Power Politics and the New World by George Sliger
"Frankly, this isn't going to be a problem. Santos won by 30,000 votes in Nevada. We're going to destroy him, and RINO [Arnold] Vinick come 2010, with me at the forefront."
-Robert Ritchie, at a Florida Republicans dinner
