It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.