"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."

Actor, Living, President

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"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."

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"I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor."

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

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

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"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."

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

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