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1. "Margaret: Can I - can I just say something for the future?Leo: Yeah.Margaret: I can sign the President's name. I have his signature down pretty good.Leo: You can sign the President's name?Margaret: Yeah.Leo: On a document removing him from power and handing it to someone else?Margaret: Yeah! Or... do you think the White House Counsel would say that was a bad idea?Leo: I think the White House Counsel would say it was a coup d'etat!Margaret: Well. I'd probably end up doing some time for that.Leo: I would think. And what the hell were you doing practicing the President's signature?Margaret: It was just for fun." ~ Aaron Sorkin
2. "Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you? Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham. What age would that be, Toby? Late twenties? Atta boy." ~ Aaron Sorkin
3. "Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right?Sam: No.Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent." ~ Aaron Sorkin
4. "I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level." ~ Aaron Sorkin
5. "Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now." ~ Aaron Sorkin
6. "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." ~ Aaron Sorkin
7. "If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind." ~ Aaron Sorkin
8. "Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace" ~ Aaron Sorkin
9. "DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?" ~ Aaron Sorkin
10. "TOBY: The world can move or not by changing some words." ~ Aaron Sorkin
11. "Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for." ~ Aaron Sorkin
12. "Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has." ~ Aaron Sorkin
13. "Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright." ~ Aaron Sorkin
14. "And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet." ~ Aaron Sorkin
15. "Decisions are made by those who show up." ~ Aaron Sorkin
16. "I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection." ~ Aaron Sorkin
17. "It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference." ~ Aaron Sorkin
18. "Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good." ~ Aaron Sorkin
19. "Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep." ~ Aaron Sorkin
20. "It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling." ~ Aaron Sorkin
21. "Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues." ~ Aaron Sorkin
22. "A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated." ~ Aaron Sorkin
23. "But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence." ~ Aaron Sorkin
24. "There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb." ~ Aaron Sorkin
25. "We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set." ~ Aaron Sorkin
26. "Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight." ~ Aaron Sorkin

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