Actor Michael Moriarty has won two Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award.

His movies include "Bang the Drum Slowly" and "Pale Rider." Television appearances include the hit series "Law and Order." He is also an accomplished jazz and classical music composer.

Though he has not (to our knowledge) declared he is a libertarian, he has been outspoken on numerous political issues, and his views seem strongly libertarian.

In 1994 he delivered a remarkable speech to the Libertarian Party national committee. He declared that he had thought of himself as a liberal, and had voted for Bill Clinton for president. However, he expressed horror at that administration's subsequent actions, and at the state of politics in general in America.

He attacked the Clinton administration, and particularly Attorney General Janet Reno for the holocaust at Waco; for censorship; for supporting restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms; for what he called "this insane and unconstitutional War on Drugs"; and more. He railed against taxes, Big Government, and policies that are "building this nation into a police state."

He stated an interest in running as an Independent for President of the United States.

Quotable

"We've been asleep for about 50 years. Ever since the end of World War II we just steadily handed our future and our bank accounts and now our children, handed them all over to the federal government...
"National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not in the Soviet Union of the United States we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.'"

-- from his speech to the Libertarian Party national committee, August 1994.