The West Wing (TV Series)

In God We Trust (2005)

Martin Sheen: President Josiah Bartlet

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• Sen. Arnold Vinick : Help me keep a secret.

  Jed Bartlet : What's that?

  Sen. Arnold Vinick : That I just gave you more than you asked for. Let me hang around for awhile, as if we're really slugging it out in here.

  Jed Bartlet : Can I get you anything?

  Sen. Arnold Vinick : Where's the ice cream?

• Jed Bartlet : I went to mass every Sunday long before I went into politics.

  Sen. Arnold Vinick : I did, too.

  Jed Bartlet : Why'd you stop?

  Sen. Arnold Vinick : One Christmas, my wife gave me a very old edition of the King James Bible - 17th century. It was a real find for a book collector. It was a thrill just to hold it - then I read it.

  Jed Bartlet : You can't take it literally.

  Sen. Arnold Vinick : Yeah, that's what my priest friends kept telling me, but the more I read it, the less I could believe. I could not believe that there was a God who said that the penalty for working on the sabbath was death. I couldn't believe there was a God who said the penalty for adultery was death.

  Jed Bartlet : I'm more of a New Testament man myself.

  Sen. Arnold Vinick : I couldn't believe there was a God who had no penalty for slavery. The Bible has no problem with slavery at all. Lincoln could've used a little help from the Bible.