The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

Is there decency left in American politics?

The political power of the purse string has a place in America only when there are lots of little purses, and has no place in an American society when it exist only in the hands of a super rich minority. Monopoly is anti-American and anti our original reasons for independence from Britain.

I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.

American politics is always an open competition.