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The actor and activist, who from time to time has been discussed as a possible Democratic candidate, insists his own life may have been a bit too colorful to get him elected.\n<\/p>\n

“I didn’t live my life in the right way for politics, you know,” Clooney, 49, tells Newsweek<\/em><\/a> in this week’s cover story. “I [expletive] too many chicks and did too many drugs, and that’s the truth.” <\/p>\n

But, says Clooney, politicians should just be open about their past indiscretions and then get on with governing.\n<\/p>\n

A savvy polticial figure “would start from the beginning by saying, ‘I did it all. I drank the bong water. Now let’s talk about issues,’ ” he says. “That’s gonna be my campaign slogan: ‘I drank the bong water.’ ”\n<\/p>\n

Instead of delving into the world of Washington, D.C., politics, Clooney would rather focus his star power on raising awareness around certain issues \u2013 such as the war in Sudan, where he’s spent a lot of time over the last few years.\n<\/p>\n

Using his own resources, Clooney has also turned the cameras around by funding a satellite that monitors military movements in a particularly volatile area of Sudan.\n<\/p>\n

“I’m not tied to the U.N. or the U.S. government, and so I don’t have the same constraints,” says the actor, who next stars as a politician in The Ides of March<\/em>. “I’m a guy with a camera from 480 miles up. I’m the anti-genocide paparazzi.”<\/p>\n

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