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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Famous quotes containing the words politics, charity and/or work:
“Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices.... Politics has once again become religious.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“Opening the door of charity can create problems.”
—Chinese proverb.
“There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.... Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)