Top Ten Recurring Characters
#10 Louise Thornton
LOU: I don't want a DNC contract. I just came by to see if this is the Josh Lyman vanity exercise everyone says it is. Besides, if I take your money, how can I snipe at you on Meet the Press?
#09 Helen Santos
HELEN: Time for a little incursion?
SANTOS: Not even for a surgical strike.
HELEN: I had in mind more of shock and awe.
SANTOS: Oh, yeah? After 15 years of marriage I'd be shocked if you were awed.
#08 Sheila Brooks
SHEILA: I'm just saying, watch it with the body parts.
VINICK: That's ridiculous.
SHEILA: You're the next President of the United States.
VINICK: Don't say that.
SHEILA: You have a standard to uphold.
#07 Simon Donovan Special Agent Sunshine
SIMON: You're like the girl in Driver's Ed, who won't watch the prom night movie because it's gross, and so ends up missing an important lesson about drinking and driving.
#06 Joey Lucas
JOEY [KENNEY]: Joshua Lyman, you have the cutest little butt in professional politics.
[Josh turns to find Joey standing with a big grin on her face. Next to her is her interpreter, Kenny.]
JOSH: Kenny, really, that better been her talking.
#05 Danny Concannon
C.J.: Tell me you don't have a question about the pens.
DANNY: C.J., I have a question about the pens.
C.J.: Yes, Danny?
DANNY: Josiah Bartlet has 13 letters in it, how's the President gonna use 15 pens?
#04 Ainsley Hayes
SAM: 'Can I have this muffin?'!
AINSLEY: I was...
SAM: I think that you'll discover that the sharpest of closing remarks'll be blunted by asking for a muffin.
#03 Andrea Wyatt
TOBY: Eighty-five percent of what kind of backward population votes for this woman?
ANDY: The good people of Maryland.
#02 Mallory O'Brien
MALLORY: I didn't want to take advantage of the fact that we're dating.
SAM: We're not dating.
MALLORY: That's kinda sad for you, isn't it?
#01 Amy Gardner
AMY: I have wit, I have charm, I have brains, I have legs that go all the way down to the floor, my friend.