The West Wing, Season One

C.J.:
Sir, this may be a good time to talk about your sense of humor.

Bartlet:
I've got an intelligence briefing, a security briefing, and a 90-minute budget meeting all scheduled for the same 45 minutes. You sure this is a good time to talk about my sense of humor?

C.J.:
No.

Bartlet:
Me neither.

C.J.:
It's just that it's not the first time that it's happened.

Bartlet:
I know.

Toby:
We're talking about Texas, sir.

Bartlet:
I know.

C.J.:
USA Today asks you why you don't spend more time campaigning in Texas and you say it's because you don't look good in funny hats.

Sam:
It was big hats.

C.J.:
What difference does it make?

Bartlet:
It makes a difference.

C.J.:
The point is we got whomped in Texas.

Josh:
We got whomped in Texas twice.

C.J.:
We got whomped in the primary and we got whomped in November.

Bartlet:
I think I was there.

C.J.:
And it was avoidable. Sir.

Bartlet:
C.J., on your tombstone it's gonna read 'Post hoc ergo propter hoc.'

CJ:
Okay, but none of my visitors are going to be able to understand my tombstone.

Bartlet:
Twenty-seven lawyers in the room, anybody know 'post hoc, ergo propter hoc'? Josh?

Josh:
Ah, post, after hoc, ergo, therefore... After hoc, therefore something else hoc.

Bartlet:
Thank you. Next? Leo.

Leo:
'After it, therefore because of it'.

Bartlet:
'After it, therefore because of it'. It means one thing follows the other, therefore it was caused by the other. But it's not always true. In fact it's hardly ever true. We did not lose Texas because of the hat joke. Do you know when we lost Texas?

C.J.:
When you learned to speak Latin?

Bartlet:
Go figure.