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

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.
Martin Sheen

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

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.
Martin Sheen

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

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.
Martin Sheen

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.
Martin Sheen

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.
Martin Sheen