People always say, "Could it have been a show about a conservative Republican administration?" No! Nobody wants to watch that! Watching Republicans flirt makes people queasy!

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.'