Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.

As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.

If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.

President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.