“Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.”

“If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.(Isaac Jaffe, Sports Night)”

“This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.”

“Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.”

“President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.”

“I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, Giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy: I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.”

“Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.”