The West Wing (TV Series)

The Wedding (2005)

Bradley Whitford: Josh Lyman

Quotes 

• Josh Lyman : They want you. It's you, isn't it? Hell, that's who I'd want. You would have known. You would have been in Illinois months ago, right?

  Leo McGarry : Stop it!

  Josh Lyman : Right? You would have figured it out. Where would you have gotten the dough? Come on tell me, where would you have gotten the money?

  Leo McGarry : I wouldn't have gotten the money because I would have been in Illinois. The polls there looked as bad as when we were running against Eisenhower. I would have made the same decision as you. And that is exactly what I told Barry Goodwin and George Montgomery. Look, these are tough calls. It's impossible to know how they're going to turn out. What's important is how you respond when you get it wrong, how you react, what your next move is.

  Josh Lyman : I don't know what my next move is. I've been staring at this damn map all day. I still haven't got a clue. Iowa's vulnerable. I don't know what I was thinking in Wisconsin. We can't take a dime out of Ohio, Florida, Texas... I don't know where to start. They're right: you should take over.

  Leo McGarry : You're all trying to kill me.