Find something in your life worth fighting for

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

I love my country enough to suffer its wrath.

Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I was the last one to join the cast of the west Wing and when I started it was just a peripheral character - the focus was to be on the staff, not the First Family. When I did the pilot, my contract was for just three years and it was confined to maybe three or four episodes every season. The only restraint I had was that I could not play another President while the show was on the air. So, I kind of backed into one of the great events of my life and certainly my career.