My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

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

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius.

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.

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