The West Wing, Season Four

Bartlet:
I need you to tell me now: do you think she's already dead?

Leo:
I absolutely do not.

Bartlet:
If they show me a picture of her alive and tell me to aim cruise missiles at Tel Aviv, they're counting on the fact that a father--

Leo:
But you wouldn't.

Bartlet:
I might.

Leo:
There are people around you who won't let you.

Bartlet:
How about a picture they've got a knife to her throat; get out of Saudi Arabia?

Leo:
You shouldn't think of images like that.

Bartlet:
All I can think of are images like that...Leo, the people you just named don't have the legal authority to stop me from doing certain things, and some of them would go to jail if they didn't follow my orders. Very quietly, I want you to assemble the Cabinet. I want you to call the Speaker of the House.