One of my favorite episodes in West Wing was the homeless man that died and they found, in the overcoat he was wearing, a card of the speechwriter, Toby. He had given that coat to the Goodwill and this guy had ended up wearing it, died in it and Toby went to his funeral. He turned out to be a Korean war veteran. It was our first Christmas episode and that was a true story - a member of the staff had done exactly that. So many of these stories were far better than any fiction.

I think I'm known as a liberal democrat and Hispanic and a practicing Catholic, but I never really went out of my way specifically to play a president or any kind of leader.

Theres no way that I could be the president. You cant have a pacifist in the White House... Im an actor. This is what I do for a living.

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value.

If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.