She Spies (TV Series)

First Episode (2002)

Barry Bostwick: Governor Gary McNamara

Quotes 

• D.D. Cummings : I especially appreciate the way you hung in there when things got tough. You did some of your best work with your back against the wall.

  Governor Gary McNamara : Well, thanks very much, D.D. Perhaps some day soon I'll be able to do some of my best work with your back against the wall.

• Governor Gary McNamara : But there's a number of people who still think I should be President.

  Cassie McBain : There are a number of people who eat other people, doesn't mean I'd put it on the ballot.

• Governor Gary McNamara : I guess you've heard of cryogenics?

  Cassie McBain : Sure we have; the human snowcone, the freeze-dried nuts, the people who get frostbite *after* they die.

  D.D. Cummings : Walt Disney did it; who's next, Michael Ice-ner?

  Cassie McBain : The only people who've done that are absolute zeros.

  D.D. Cummings : Or people with bi-polar personalities.

  Governor Gary McNamara : What were they in jail for, was it beating a joke to death?

• Shane Phillips : [to Barry:]  Now there's no way I'm gonna allow that guy to keep hitting on every woman he bumps into.

  [the Governor enters from behind] 

  Governor Gary McNamara : [bumps into her]  Barry!

  [to Shane:] 

  Governor Gary McNamara : Well, hello there, sugar. Hmm. I'm guessing you're the proud new beneficiary of a network diversity program.

  [patronising cock of the head, and she nods with a smile] 

  Governor Gary McNamara : Listen, I was wondering if...

  [took off his glasses] 

  Governor Gary McNamara : you would give me all of your notes over a dinner, a late-night contraceptive...

  [raises his eyebrows] 

  Governor Gary McNamara : cocktail!