Quotes from Aaron Sorkin

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

Decisions are made by those who show up

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

It's one thing to be asked to respect someone else's religion. It's another to be asked to respect their taboos.

We have a natural resentment toward government, which was how we were born

Music is what mathematics does on a Satruday night.

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.

DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?

In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything -- to impress women. (Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)

You can't handle the truth!" - Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men.

Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place.

You know you really don't need a forensic team to get to the bottom of this.

TOBY: The world can move or not by changing some words.

I think mostly about intention and obstacle somebody wants something somethings standing in their way of getting it.

Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace

There is order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge.

You can't handle the truth . You can't handle the sad but historic reality. - Lt.Col Nathan Jessep

You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor. - Lt.j.g Daniel A Kaffee

By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not. (Joshua Malina, Sports Night)

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people, and if you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.

You are like seven of the strangest women I have ever met.

LTJG Kaffee: I want the truth! Col Jessup: You can't handle the truth!