James Garner



James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American film and television actor and producer.

Tavis Smiley interview (2004)
Tavis Smiley, Late Night on PBS - 2004-06-14, Interview: with Tavis Smiley, PBS (June 14, 2004).


 * Anyway, you learn a healthy respect for war, and I'm not happy with what's going on today. Uh, you know, our sterling President — um, I shouldn't get into this. Everybody's gonna kill me, but I'm not happy with him. I — I — if he had ever been in a war, he wouldn't have been so happy...so eager to send other people into war.
 * On George Bush and the Iraq War.


 * Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.
 * Asked why he gets up and goes to work every day.

Tavis Smiley: Now you wish you had. Garner: No, no, no. Tavis Smiley: Hey, Arnold [Schwarzenegger] won. Garner: No. I think I could have won easy, but I don't think that they ought to have somebody like me or Schwarzenegger as Governor. It's no way to run a state.
 * Garner: Before we get off the electoral process, they wanted me to run for Governor [of California] about 8 years ago — ahem — and I didn't want to do it. I wasn't gonna get in with that--