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I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don`t encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

- Newt Gingrich

(If he weren`t so eager to differentiate between the two shows, Lurie could have easily called his new series The East Wing .) What The West Wing does extremely well is show how bills are made and how the White House works with the Congress. They`re a very political show, ... We`re going to deal a lot with the family: how you get the kids to school; this sounds petty but how do you take little kids trick-or-treating; a lot of what takes place in the residence. While (Davis` character) is the president of the United States, she`s also a mother. I don`t think that would disappear even if a woman became the president.

- Rod Lurie