If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is collaborating with different artistic visions and voices. And they all have something to offer and making the story better and bringing their vision to what you see in the frame.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.