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

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.

The power to shape your reality lies within you, therefore the most important voice you will ever hear is your own.

I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.

Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.

My mother's a pretty warm, open person.

I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth.

Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

They say the open road helps you think. About where you've been and where you're going.