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I love my country enough to suffer its wrath

I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it ... but Washington really changes the world.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

We are not asked to do great things. We are asked to do all things with great care.

If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value.

You never know when you are doing something that is affecting someone.

I became an actor because it was my clumsy attempt to become myself.

I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

... there was a saying that Marlon Brando changed the way actors acted, James Dean changed the way people lived. I believe that.

No matter what is going on, everything is grace.

Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

We never get over our fathers, and we're not required to. (Irish Proverb)

War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.

It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.

Find something in your life worth fighting for

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House ... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.

That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category.

I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.

My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.

I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.

I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try ... at age 65!

Just open your eyes! I thought. These desperate poor are your gurus.

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.

We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.

The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

Oh you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need fighting!

Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.