Theres no way that I could be the president. You cant have a pacifist in the White House... Im an actor. This is what I do for a living.

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

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. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.

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

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

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

There is no greater virtue than honesty.