Martin Sheen Quotes
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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.
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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.
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We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.
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I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.
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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.
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War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
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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.
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George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.
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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.
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I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.
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That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category.
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We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.
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It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.
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I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.
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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.
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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.