MARTIN SHEEN

I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

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.

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.

What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.

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

The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

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 still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

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.

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

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 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 never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!

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.

We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.

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.

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.

No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

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.

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.

War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.