“I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.”

American actor and filmmaker

Clint Eastwood is an American actor and filmmaker, known for a screen career that made him a lasting cultural icon of masculinity. Born Clinton Eastwood Jr., he first found success in the Western television series Rawhide, then rose to international fame in the mid-1960s. He is especially associated with Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy, where he played the “Man with No Name,” and with the Dirty Harry films, in which he portrayed Harry Callahan across the 1970s and 1980s. In 1986, he was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and served for two years.