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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch."

"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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