The West Wing1999

Louise Thornton:
Rough day?

Josh Lyman:
Nuh, typical.

Louise Thornton:
You love it, you live for it, you were born to do it, I'm the same way. Everybody tells me to get a life, although I don't know why... I find life to be terribly overrated. It's actually quite boring when it's not disappointing. Say what you will about what we do, but boring it is not.

Josh Lyman:
I know that you can parlay the Santos win into a doubling of your fee.

Louise Thornton:
Tripling, if it figures into your memoirs.

Josh Lyman:
Nothing is going to top this. Everything else's going to be a letdown.

Louise Thornton:
Letdowns that make me semi-rich, that's a tradeoff I'm willing to endure.

Josh Lyman:
You don't care about money.

Louise Thornton:
Who doesn't?

Josh Lyman:
You!

Louise Thornton:
Not as such.

Josh Lyman:
As what?

Louise Thornton:
Scorekeeping. Quantitative evidence that I'm smarter than you. Not *you*.

Josh Lyman:
Who?

Louise Thornton:
Everybody else.

Josh Lyman:
Come on board as communications director.

Louise Thornton:
Thank you, but no.

Josh Lyman:
Finish what you started.

Louise Thornton:
I'm not interested in governing.

Josh Lyman:
Campaigning's about promise; governing's about achievement. It's, it's tougher and a lot less romantic, but it's not boring. I already think you're smarter than everyone, that's why I want you down the hall. Come on, it's not like getting a life!

Louise Thornton:
That's true, look at you.