One of the cool things, obviously there's 'Scandal,' 'House of Cards,' there was 'West Wing.' Other than that Jack Lemmon/James Garner movie about ex-presidents, no one's ever done anything in this area, whereas a lot of times, we do a… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
I was a Fry & Laurie fan, I was a Blackadder fan, I was a House fan and he [ Hugh Laurie]s a pleasure. — David Mandel Copy Share Image
I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh my God,… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
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. — David Mandel Copy Share Image
As for being on Twitter, I enjoy it tremendously, and it is wonderfully overwhelming to see people not just digging it and liking it. — David Mandel Copy Share Image
I'd like to give every member of our cast a best supporting comedy Emmy. — David Mandel Copy Share Image
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… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
I have been able to watch the Clintons and The Clinton Foundation; Al Gore and what he did post-losing the whole Florida thing. There's… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
I think the fact that they all served under her as a president is a strong pull. Here's a perfect example: George Stephanopoulos. He… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
I was born in 1970 and I got to see a little bit of [Richard] Nixon's attempts at redefining himself. I saw [Gerald] Ford. — David Mandel Copy Share Image
Here's one of the great things, and I may have said this somewhere, so forgive me. Curb ideas are not Veep ideas. I definitely… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
I think it's a fun thing, and perhaps maybe very so slightly as an American, it's a slightly different thing that they didn't do… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
It's gratifying that people are watching that [Veep] intently and that hard. So it's been really nice and it's been really fun. — David Mandel Copy Share Image
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… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
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