I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

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 have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.

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

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.