Robin Williams Comes Clean on 'GMA'

Oct. 2, 2006 — -- Robin Williams believes his latest fim, "Man of the Year," is provocative look at a comedian who is elected U.S. president because he tells the truth.

Williams says the film, which opens on Friday, reflects what he sees as a lack of integrity and accountability in politics today.

"I look in my own party, to both parties, to say, where is the courage?" he said.

The 55-year-old actor-comedian spoke to anchor Diane Sawyer, two months after he checked himself into rehab for alcoholism.

Williams had been sober for 20 years when he started drinking again. He decided to seek help in August, his publicist said.

In his new film, Robin Williams plays a comedian talk-show host who is elected president because he tells the truth.

Williams says the film, which opens on Friday, reflects what he sees as a lack of integrity and accountability in politics today.

"I look in my own party, to both parties, to say, where is the courage?" he said.

Williams says courage is standing behind your opinion.

"The ability to be who you are, and say this is who I am. And not be spun," Williams told Diane Sawyer on "Good Morning America."

What about the crop of possible presidential candidates today? What about Hillary Clinton, for example?

"If you do a double bill, Hillary and Oprah," Williams said. "Ebony and ivory, go together in perfect. ...I just want to see Oprah debate Condoleeza. That would be like … I think that's a pay per view."

If Williams were really elected president, he joked the first thing he would do is appoint Willie Nelson secretary of agriculture.

"I think you stone a lot of birds with one kill. I think you get a lot going there," he said.

While Williams waxes poetic about Angelina Jolie's lips in the movie, he told Sawyer that if he could be any woman, he would choose a politician -- Ann Richards, the former Texas governor, who died of cancer on Sept. 13.