Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.

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

Infuse your life with action.

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.

Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

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?