I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.
I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!
I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.
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 still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.
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.
No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.
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.
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.
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.
The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.
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.
This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.
War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.
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.
When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.
You never know when you are doing something that is affecting someone.
We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.
We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.
