The West Wing Quotes

“Don't tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing.”
― Aaron Sorkin

“You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.”
― Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

“Yet, despite the snappy repartee and often-witty scripts, West Wing was a remarkably silly program. Has there ever been a group of real White House staffers as admirable and lovable as the West Wing ensemble, that selfless, high-minded, public-spirited, fundamentally decent pack of . . . political operators? Sorkin’s White House existed in a Bizarro World where the Oval Office is apparently devoid of office politics. Fans of the show never saw the sort of infighting, backstabbing, and jockeying for position that appear in real-world accounts of White House life, like George Reedy’s Twilight of the Presidency and John Dean’s Blind Ambition.”
― Gene Healy, The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power