I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim. - George Clooney
I'm an Obama supporter, no question. But it doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the other side. - Brad Pitt
You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues. - Ian McKellen
I'm surprised at people who have a passion for Mitt Romney, because he's taken every position there is. I would cast this guy as the president in a heartbeat... but I just cannot believe a word he says. - Mark Hamill
I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students. - Mark Hamill
[Talking about Star Wars co-stars Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher]: Actually, Harrison and I never fought in either picture. It was Carrie and I who had the screaming matches from time to time, though afterward neither of us could remember what they were about. - Mark Hamill
I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.
Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties. - George Clooney
My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise. - George Clooney
It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape. - George Clooney
I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.' - George Clooney
I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out. - George Clooney
I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches. - George Clooney
The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right. - Naomi Wolf
We have to find the intermediate ways and means of restoring a degree of stability to our politics and more than a degree of safety to our citizens.
