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Tavis Smiley interview (2004)

Tavis Smiley, Late Night on – 2004-06-14, Interview: with Tavis Smiley – 2004-06-14 Retrieved on 2007-09-08.

• 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.

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• Rockford, I believe, has been the most successful series I ever had. It was the most fun and to come out with a total loss really dimmed my eagerness. It broke my heart. They’re bad people. I don’t like to work with bad people. It hurt me physically, financially, and mentally.

• Smart intrigues me. I’m very wry and off-beat. I’m not going to make you fall down and laugh. I don’t do comedy. I do humor!

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