You do it for yourself. You donβt expect to change the world. You donβt even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you canβt not do it and be who you are. Or who youβre meant to be.
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.
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
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.
I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.
When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.
Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.
Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.
Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.
George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.
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.
I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.
The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.
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.
This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.
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.
War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.
