The Windy City/Quotes

"Bartlet And Leo Are On Their Way To A Meeting With Babish/

Leo: You're scared of Babish.

Bartlet: Oh, like you're not.

Leo: No, because we are both men of Chicago.

Bartlet: What is it with people from Chicago that they're so happy to have been born there? I meet so many people who can't wait to tell me they're from Chicago and when I meet them, they're living anywhere but Chicago.

Leo: You wouldn't understand."

- --The West Wing 2x19, "Bad Moon Rising"

""Chicago was founded by two guys from New York who said, 'You know, I really like the crime and congestion, but the weather's just not crappy enough.'""

- Paul Reiser

""Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders. . . ""

- Carl Sandburg, "Chicago"

"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine."

- Neil Gaiman, American Gods