|
| Ben |
Affleck |
"The Bush administration has continued
to push a dangerous right-wing agenda
which has included increasing encroachments
on civil liberties, particularly with
the questionable and aggressive use of
the Patriot Act." |
| Robert |
Altman |
"If George W. Bush is elected president,
I'm leaving for France." |
| Jennifer |
Aniston |
"Bush is a f*cking idiot." |
| Ed |
Asner |
"I feel that George Bush's actions are
desecrating the America that I grew up
in and believed in. He is making us an
imperialist government. He is choosing
to replace heads of state and government
he doesn't like." |
| Alec |
Baldwin |
"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected
— selected by five judges up in Washington
who voted along party lines." |
| Joy |
Behar |
"What I think we should do is draw up
a petition, everybody sign in crayon,
and then he'll [Bush] understand." |
| Harry |
Belafonte |
"There's an old saying, in the days
of slavery, there were those slaves who
lived on the plantation and were those
slaves that lived in the house. You got
the privilege of living in the house if
you served the master exactly the way
the master intended to have you serve
him. "Colin Powell's committed to come
into the house of the master. When Colin
Powell dares to suggest something other
than what the master wants to hear, he
will be turned back out to pasture." |
| Sandra |
Bernhard |
"That’s so weird that you ask that because
we were just talking about I.Q.s the other
day – you know, George W.’s I.Q. is like
92 and Bill Clinton’s was like 190 or
something." |
| George |
Carlin |
"And I certainly would never wish a
president any sort of harm …out loud.
It’s not in my heart to do such a thing
–to any human being. I wish all people
only the best at all times …out loud.
Especially the president. Because even
though I disagree with his policies, and
think he is a dangerous imbecile, he is,
after all, the President of all of us,
and he is a fellow human being, deserving
of respect. (That was hard to say, but
I wanted to keep the record straight.)
" |
| |
Cher |
"I don't like Bush. I don't trust him.
I don't like his record. He's stupid.
He's lazy." |
| David |
Clennon |
"I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler
because George Bush, for one thing, is
not as smart as Adolf Hitler. And secondly
George Bush has much more power than Adolf
Hitler ever had." |
| George |
Clooney |
"The problem is we elected a manager,
and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush
is just dim." |
| John |
Cusack |
"... I’m not saying I loved Gore, but
I’m saying I don’t want that mother-f*cking
Bush in the White House." |
| Johnny |
Depp |
"America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy
that has big teeth that can bite and hurt
you, aggressive." |
| Ani |
DiFranco |
"It's a hard one to stomach. It's hard
to wake up every day with a feeling that
you are ashamed of your country and then
get out onstage and find something inspirational,
something hopeful. I am part of the huge,
voiceless population in this country.
I have been attempting through my work
to deal with it, but sometimes I get a
little lost. I love America. I hate the
American Government." |
| |
Dixie Chicks |
"Just so you know, we're ashamed the
president of the United States is from
Texas." |
| Sandy |
Duncan |
"I tend to be more of a liberal, and
at this point in global history, war is
just not a feasible option. I just wish
men would quit thinking they could just
duke it out with each other. |
| |
Eminem |
From his new song "We as Americans":
"F--k money. I don't rap for dead presidents.
I'd rather see the president dead. It's
never been said, but I set precedents
and the standards and they can't stand
it. ... We as Americans. Us as a citizen.
We've got to protect ourselves ..." |
| Mike |
Farrell |
He said Bush's speech was "a hideous
insult to everything we stand for. I've
been told cynicism is the most powerful
tool for controlling people. It's a tactic
and one we must not allow ourselves to
fall into." |
| Bobby |
Fischer |
In response to 9/11: "Yes this is all
wonderful news, it is time that the f*cking
Jews get their heads kicked in. It's time
to finish off the US once and for all."
|
| Jane |
Fonda |
"I would think that if you understood
what Communism was, you would hope, you
would pray on your knees, that we would
someday become communists." -- Michigan
State University, 1970 |
| Janeane |
Garofalo |
"This [Iraq war] is a manufactured conflict
for the sake of geopolitical dominance
in the area. |
| Richard |
Gere |
"America has never paid any attention
to other people, so it's absurd for Bush
to say that it's all in the best interests
of the Iraqi people." |
| Danny |
Glover |
"One of the main purveyors of violence
in this world has been this country, whether
it’s been against Nicaragua or wherever...I’ve
been an advocate for peace my whole life.
But one of the main purveyors of violence
in this world is this country." |
| Whoopi |
Goldberg |
"I don't agree, you see, I don't really
view communism as a bad thing." |
| Larry |
Hagman |
"[Bush is a] sad figure: not too well
educated, who doesn't get out of America
much. He's leading the country towards
fascism." |
| Woody |
Harrelson |
"I'm an American tired of lies. And
with our government, it's mostly lies." |
| Ed |
Harris |
"I haven’t even been drinking, but,
at all, but, you know, being a man, I’ve
got to say that we’ve got this guy in
the White House who thinks he is a man,
you know, who projects himself as a man
because he has a certain masculinity,
and he's a good old boy, and he used to
drink, and he knows how to shoot a gun
and how to drive a pickup truck, etcetera
like that. That’s not the definition of
a man, God Dammit!" |
| Dustin |
Hoffman |
"For me as an American, the most painful
aspect of this is that I believe that
administration has taken the events of
9/11 and has manipulated the grief of
the country and I think that's reprehensible."
|
| Kate |
Hudson |
"Sometimes I'll be walking down the
street and I'll hear some American and
I'll just go, 'Of course they hate us,
of course they can't stand us.' We're
the most annoying, boisterous creatures
in the world. I mean we come in and we
eat mounds of food, and we're like, 'Where's
the kaachup [sic] for our French fries.'
I'm like, 'Shut up!'" |
| Chrissie |
Hynde |
"Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive)
this country represents! Bring it on,
I hope the Muslims win!" |
| |
Jethro Tull |
"I hate to see the American flag hanging
out of every bloody station wagon, out
of every SUV, every little Midwestern
house in some residential area. It's easy
to confuse patriotism with nationalism,"
Ian Anderson said in an interview published
in New Jersey's Asbury Park Press. "Flag
waving ain't gonna do it." |
| Jessica |
Lange |
"I hate Bush," Lange spewed last week
when receiving an award at a film festival
in Spain. She added: "I despise him and
his entire administration" and that "what
Bush intends to do with Iraq is unconstitutional,
immoral and illegal." |
| Spike |
Lee |
"Shoot him [Charlton Heston] --with
a .44-caliber Bulldog." |
| |
Madonna |
"Since when is offensive language a
reason for being unpopular? I find the
language of George W much more offensive."
|
| Dave |
Matthews |
"It is criminal to put our servicemen
and women in harm's way and to put the
lives of so many civilians on the line
for the misguided frustrations of the
Bush administration." |
| John |
Mellencamp |
"He wants to fight with many/And he
says it's not for oil/He sent out the
National Guard/To police the world/From
Baghdad to Washington," go the lyrics
to his song "To Washington." |
| Alyssa |
Milano |
When asked if she was a Republican,
Milano answered, "No, but I want whoever
is running our country to succeed. Every
time I hear Bush speak, I’m like, 'Oh,
just get through this sentence, get through
it.' And it’s like, 'Whew!'" |
| |
Moby |
"[George W. Bush is] a half-wit President
who was not legally elected". He went
on to conclude that "maybe we should have
a moment's silence for the fact that we
are ruled by evil, evil people." |
| Michael |
Moore |
"I want him [Bush] paraded in handcuffs
outside a police house as a common criminal
because I don't know if there's a greater
crime than taking people to war based
on a lie. I've never seen anything like
Bush and his people. They truly hate our
constitution, our rights and liberties.
They have no shame in fighting for their
corporate sponsors." |
| Viggo |
Mortensen |
"What the United States has been doing
for the past year is bombing innocent
civilians without having come anywhere
close to catching Osama bin Laden or any
presumed enemy..." |
| Edward |
Norton |
"As an actor I know in my mind, watching
him [Bush], what a low-quality mind he
has. Because I've been doing this since
I was 5 years old, I know when a person
is saying words that aren't their own
-- and it's apparent as it could possibly
be to me that he's a mouthpiece, and not
even a good mouthpiece. [Ronald] Reagan
was a B-movie actor, but at least he had
the ability to touch certain emotional
notes. Bush is just utterly incapable
of it." |
| |
Pearl Jam |
"With three Supreme Court positions
opening in the next administration, I'm
frightened to think of a Republican in
office, especially one raised by a father
who was in the CIA. I'm moving to a different
country if little Damien II gets elected." |
| Sean |
Penn |
"I think that people like the Howard
Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser
degree the bin Ladens of the world are
making a horrible contribution [to society].
I'd like to trade O'Reilly for bin Laden.
[O'Reilly] is a grumpy, self-loathing
joke." |
| Tim |
Robbins |
"I'm against this whole 'Let's bomb
a new country because things aren't going
our way.' It's, let's change the subject
from Cheney and Halliburton and the crumbling
confidence in the stock market. Talk about
cynical! Because it's the cost of human
lives that I resent... to put American
soldiers in harm's way and to do everything
to change the subject so that Republicans
can keep control of the House." |
| Eric |
Roberts |
He considers Bush a "fascist" and a
co-conspirator (with Osama bin Laden)
in deliberately "wrecking the American
economy." |
| Julia |
Roberts |
"He's embarrassing. He's not my president.
He will never be my president." |
| Carlos |
Santana |
"He [Bush] is supposed to be America's
president, but he's not my president,
I didn't vote for him." |
| Susan |
Sarandon |
"Instead, our president has turned it
[9/11] into one of the most divisive times
since the Civil War." |
| Martin |
Scorsese |
"It seems to me that any sensible person
must see that violence does not change
the world and if it does, then only temporarily." |
| Martin |
Sheen |
"George W Bush is like a bad comic working
the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the
expression." |
| Bruce |
Springsteen |
"It's time to impeach the president
and get a man in there to get us out of
this mess." |
| Oliver |
Stone |
"We should look to (Castro) as one of
the Earth's wisest people, one of the
people we should consult." |
| Barbra |
Streisand |
"As we have learned in the past weeks,
we cannot trust George W. Bush." |
| Uma |
Thurman |
Uma Thurman was not thrilled to learn
that George W. Bush was America's new
president. "Now he has a very remarkable
distinction," she conceded. "Should he
be elected president of the United States,
he will have the least impressive record
of any head of state in all of our history.
Oh, he's failed in many many areas..."
|
| Gore |
Vidal |
"How we dare even prate about democracy
is beyond me. Our form of democracy is
bribery, on the highest scale. It's far
worse than anything that occurred in the
Roman empire, until the praetorian guard
started to sell the principate. We're
not a democracy, and we have absolutely
nothing to give the world in the way of
political ideas or political arrangements.
God knows, the mention of justice is like
a clove of garlic to Count Dracula." |
| Robin |
Williams |
"We have a president for whom English
is a second language. He's like 'We have
to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty
much one himself." |