The West Wing (TV Series)

Celestial Navigation (2000)

Rob Lowe: Sam Seaborn

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Quotes 

• Officer Peter : You walk in here, you tell me you work for the President...

  Sam Seaborn : [looks at officer's name tag]  Officer Peter, we're in a certain amount of trouble tonight and the only thing I've got going for me is that you're in more trouble than we are. My name is Sam Seaborn, I work for the President and the sooner you reach the conclusion that I'm telling you the truth the better off we're all gonna be. Why don't you go get your watch commander?

  [Officer Peter leaves the room. Sam turns to Toby] 

  Sam Seaborn : Let me tell you something. If we'd have stayed on the Merritt parkway instead of getting off on exit 29 and going east to Greenwich, I don't think we'd have wound up in Bridgeport so many times.

  Toby Ziegler : Shut up.

• Sam Seaborn : There's a store open up there. I'm gonna pull over and ask 'em if they know where the Wesley police station is.

  Toby Ziegler : Or you could just pull in there,

  [points] 

  Toby Ziegler : at the Wesley police station and ask them.

  Sam Seaborn : Hey!

  Toby Ziegler : Yeah.

  Sam Seaborn : Look!

  Toby Ziegler : Yeah.

• Leo McGarry : [about Roberto Mendoza]  He's driving from Nova Scotia to Washington?

  Sam Seaborn : Yeah.

  Leo McGarry : How's a person do that?

  Sam Seaborn : Well, my guess is, he'll take the Trans-Canada Highway to New Brunswick, then maybe catch the 1 and take the scenic route along the coast of Maine. 95 through New Hampshire to the Mass Pike, then cut over to the Merritt Parkway 'round Milford.

  Toby Ziegler : [after a moment]  There's something really kinda freakish about you, you know that?

  Sam Seaborn : Yeah.

• Sgt. MacNamara : [explaining his arrest of Roberto Mendoza for suspicion of drunk driving]  I'm the one that pulled him over, you know. His driving was erratic. Still not entirely convinced he hadn't been drinking.

  Sam Seaborn : Well, you have a problem there.

  Sgt. MacNamara : What's that?

  Sam Seaborn : Judge Mendoza has chronic persistent hepatitis, which is a non-progressive form of liver inflammation. If he'd had enough to drink to blow point one on the blood-alcohol, he'd be dead right now.

  [drinks from coffee cup] 

  Sam Seaborn : This is good coffee.

• C.J. Cregg : I'm experiencing some pain.

  Sam Seaborn : For how long?

  C.J. Cregg : About a month now, but it'll go away by itself.

  Sam Seaborn : When?

  C.J. Cregg : When I die, Sam.

• Sam Seaborn : [bursts in]  We have a problem.

  Toby Ziegler : No kidding!

  Sam Seaborn : Not Josh.

  Josh Lyman : Praise God.

  Sam Seaborn : Although I gotta say, telling a reporter his question is stupid is not like a page out of Dale Carnegie or anything.