I Think The Church Is

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.

We Are The Generation That Brought The Bomb In. We Have Got To Be The Generation That Should Take It Out.

We Think Of Violence As Being Conflict And Fighting And Wars And So Forth, But The Most Ongoing Horrific Measure Of Violence Is In The Horrible Poverty Of The Third World... And The Poverty In The United States As Well. We Have Our Own Third World Here. And We Have To First Become Aware Of That And How To Help And Solve That.

I'm One Of Those Cliff-hanging Catholics. I Don't Believe In God, But I Do Believe That Mary Was His Mother.

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.