Politics and Charity Work
Kilmer made several trips to New Orleans to help in the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster relief.
Kilmer is an ardent supporter of Native American affairs and an advocate of environmental protection.
He briefly flirted with running for Governor of New Mexico in 2010, but in the end declined to run.
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“I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)
“Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in 1 Corinthians, 8:1-2.
“Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now direct, that the wonderful child should be deprived of all books and study, and turned to play or work in the fresh air.”
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