I love my country enough to suffer its wrath.

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

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

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.

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.

Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity. And we are so made as to feel something for people who are in pain. It's not possible to be human and to be unaffected by what you see in the third world.

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.