I'd like to give every member of our cast a best supporting comedy Emmy.

What I loved about it was language-wise it wasn't that finely-tuned-perfect-insult-for-the-perfect-situation that sometimes we try and do on Veep.

I was a Fry & Laurie fan, I was a Blackadder fan, I was a House fan and he [ Hugh Laurie]s a pleasure.

I love Veep so I felt like there was a lot I could bring to it.

All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.

As for being on Twitter, I enjoy it tremendously, and it is wonderfully overwhelming to see people not just digging it and liking it.

If that had been my last show last night, you'd be talking to the new guy, asking the same questions that I got.

I'm certainly never going to say that someone is prettier than Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but someone who would make her crazy for being young and good-looking.

My first instinct was Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) cannot be president of the United States. She needs to lose because it's the thing she wants most on the planet Earth.

I'm a little bit of a news political junkie, a little bit of a reader of history.

I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more modern ones.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

By forgetting the Supreme Lord, all the ailments cling to the man.

We don’t get to choose what happens to us—but we always get to choose how we react to it.

Was it really right to look the way he did? His prominent nose was altogether too immodest for his humble position in life

You can look at a finale as chance to make an impact or a statement, to shock people or shoot a big cannon and make a loud noise.

I always blend my mascaras, since some are better at lengthening and others are better at thickening.

I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

One of the main faults of a fool is that he never changes his mind.

Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.