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Gere said, “Overall, I think he’s done an extraordinary job. I think he’s going to go down probably as one of our great presidents."
“He’s been able to juggle – let’s think of all of the problems that he’s had in his presidency," said the actor. "You know, natural disasters, or international issues, domestic. He has found a way to change and flow to learn from every situation.”
Gere continued, “He obviously puts himself out there personally constantly. He’s a good listener. He engages on a personal level almost every day. We’re coming out of this terrible economic crisis. We’re turning the corner on terrorist situations. I think his engagement with the Chinese is starting to flower now – the strength within him is starting to emerge. I think he’s doing a terrific job.”
Richard Gere: Obama Is 'One Of Our Great Presidents'
Friday, June 03, 2011 By Nicholas Ballasy
"The horrendous energy that we’re all feeling, and the possibility of turning it into more violence, and revenge, we can stop that. We can take that energy and turn it into something else. We can turn it into compassion, and to love, and to understanding."
"That’s apparently unpopular right now, but that’s alright."
Richard Gere addresses the crowd at concert for N.Y. firefighters and police
I grew up in a time like a lot of people here. It was Vietnam, and we instinctively, innately, felt we could change the world. There was no doubt about it, and we did. We changed he world, and then something happened. It all became selfish... and rancid...and silly... and stupid, and we ended up with the last eight years that we’ve had in this country, which is almost over(applause). We have a few days left, but with this new administration, I think we can recapture that innate instinctive feeling that we really can genuinely care for and love each other...everywhere on the planet. Everywhere, and no one is outside of that embrace. Nobody. Everyone gets it. We don't hold it back from the bad guys...the guys with the wrong color. The guys that live in the wrong places. Everybody gets that.
VENICE, Italy (AP) - Richard Gere and Charlize Theron added their voices to a chorus of stars taking swipes at the Bush administration at the Venice Film Festival.
"How did we elect Bush twice?" Gere asked rhetorically while promoting his new film, "The Hunting Party."
"What's interesting to me is how do
the bad people among us end up our leaders?" the 58-year-old actor said
at a news conference Monday.
Gere, Theron Bash Bush in Venice
Sep 4 11:04 AM US/Eastern
The Power of Love Richard Gere Says Even Terrorists Deserve Compassion "If you can see them [the terrorists] as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better." But,
he said, we must also think about "the terrorists who are creating
such horrible future lives for themselves because of the negativity
of this karma. If you see it from a much wider point of view, we're
all in this together. We're all intimately interconnected in all of
these actions."
Wednesday, October 10, 2001 By David Blaustein ABC News http://www.tibet.ca/wtnarchive/2001/10/10_1.html
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