I Honestly Do Not Know If Civil

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.

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.

It Doesn't Really Matter How Much Of The Rules Or The Dogma We Accepted And Lived By If We're Not Really Living By The Fundamental Creed Of The Catholic Church, Which Is Service To Others And Finding God In Ourselves And Then Seeing God In Everyone - Including Our Enemies.

Golf Is Fundamentally About Being Honest. I See People Hit Eight Shots And Tell Me They Shot Five. I Never Say A Word. It Is A Reminder To Me Of What Is At Stake.

No Matter What Is Going On, Everything Is Grace.