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

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

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

I think I'm known as a liberal democrat and Hispanic and a practicing Catholic, but I never really went out of my way specifically to play a president or any kind of leader.

I think most actors rarely get the opportunity to play something really close to you and speaks to something you deeply believe.

The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own salvation, for our own humanity.

I don't think abortion is a good idea. 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.