10 Celebrities Who Need To Run For President As Democrats
LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 01: Host George Clooney speaks onstage during the MPTF 95th anniversary celebration with ‘Hollywood’s Night Under The Stars’ at MPTF Wasserman Campus on October 1, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for MPTF)
George Clooney
George Clooney is a busy actor, but he spends all of his free time as an activist. He works hard to advocate for peace around the world. He’s also married to the brilliant and successful human rights attorney Amal Alamuddin Clooney. Sources say he’s been thinking about getting into politics, so he shouldn’t be hard to recruit!
Full Name: George Timothy Clooney
Date of Birth: May 6, 1961
Place of Birth: Lexington, KY
Height: 5’11”
Education and Experience:
- Northern Kentucky University and University of Cincinnati, majoring in broadcast journalism
- Involved with Not On Our Watch Project
- Organized Hope for Haiti telethon in 2012
- Active advocate for gay rights, regularly donates time and money to related causes
- Working to end conflict in Darfur: Traveled to Chad and Sudan to film “A Journey to Darfur” with his dad, spoke at Save Darfur rally in D.C. in 2006, testified to UN Security Council together with Elie Wiesel, received the Summit Peace Award from the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates along with Don Cheadle
- Advocates for recognition of the Armenian Genocide
- Actively encouraging countries to take in Syrian refugees
- Winner of People’s Sexiest Man Alive
- United Nations Ambassador for Peace
Quotes:
"Politicians are elected by us, so we as a collective can always make things better. I really do believe that every time things seem very bleak – and I believe that they look very bleak right now – we figure it out. We have to – that’s how society moves forwards.”"
"I grew up in the sixties where you really were taught that your voice, your responsibility in life is to participate – not just in your own life but in everyone else’s. It’s a good idea that the future isn’t inevitable and we have a say in how it ends."
"You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk."