Warren Beatty's Remarks at UC Berkeley Graduation

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The Warren commission
Guest column

By WARREN BEATTY

Warren Beatty offers a master class on state politics.

Excerpted from remarks to UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy on May 21.


One night a few months ago in Los Angeles, I found myself offering some advice for the current governor of our state. (He was not there.) I was a little tougher on him than it had been fashionable in Hollywood to be, up until then.

I've never enjoyed being publicly negative about actors in public office, like Ronald Reagan, whom I really liked, or Sonny Bono or George Murphy, because I've always had a real soft spot for actors even if they are right-wing.

And although I've never known Arnold very well, I've always liked him. When he went from body-building into the movies and said in interviews he'd like to do it like Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood does it and like Warren BeattyWarren Beatty does it, of course that's pretty much all you have to say to have me eating out of your hand.

But now that he's a politician, I say, why not rise to the higher levels of that calling, rather than denigrate your fellow politicians, calling them "stooges" and "girly men" and "losers."

They give years of their lives to public service in the legislature of what is intended to be a representative form of government, where public policy on decisions affecting 38 million people's lives are adequately discussed -- not a government by ballot initiatives financed by huge advertising monies that bypass a careful examination of a bill by the people's elected representatives.

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[mcscajun]

1. The man should run...plain and simple.

Warren should run.

[readmylips]

2. Beautiful!

Warren Beatty, for the sake of California, should run for governor. At least he speaks English well.