In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

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

In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.

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.

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