James Garner
American film and television actor (1928–2014)
James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American film and television actor and producer.
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Quotes
editTavis Smiley interview (2004)
editTavis Smiley, Late Night on w: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.
- 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--
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.
