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How Could A Guy Sitting In A Cave In Afghanistan, Have... Plotted So Perfectly The Hijacking Of Four Planes And Then Guaranteed That Three Of Them Would End Up Precisely On Their Targets?

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How Could A Guy Sitting In A Cave In Afghanistan, Have... Plotted So Perfectly The Hijacking Of Four Planes And Then Guaranteed That Three Of Them Would End Up Precisely On Their Targets?

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Wall Street, The Banks, And Corporate America, Has Been Able To Call The Shots Here. They Control Our Members Of Congress And They Get What They Want.

I Think That Capitalism In General Is Responsible, Not For The Worldwide Recession, But For A Lot Of Suffering, Both In The United States And Around The World.

White People Scare The Crap Out Of Me.

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Capitalism Means That A Few People Will Do Very Well, And The Rest Will Serve The Few.

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What The Media Are Telling You To Be Afraid Of Are The Wrong Things. Fear Is A Necessary Ingredient Of Our Survival Instincts.

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I Think If People Who Are Attacking Me Or Against Me, If They Would Just Watch One Of My Films, They Would - They May Not Agree With Me Politically On All The Things I'm Saying. But They Will Know At The End Of The Film That I Love This Country And That I Have A Heart. And They'll Have A Good Laugh Throughout The Film.

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Instead Of The Government Spending $400,000 On Immunisation, We May Get Far Better Health Outcomes If We Spend $100,000 In Some Other Way, On Nutrition For Example...when You Have An Expenditure On Getting Your Community Healthier, Then The Resistance To Many Childhood Diseases Is Stronger.

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The Movie Theater Is Never Going Away. If That Was A Case Why Are There Still Restaurants? People Still Have Kitchens In Their Home!

As You Have Fewer And Fewer Voices In A Democracy, In A Free Society, It's Not Good To Limit The Number Of Voices.

The Vast Majority Of The Guns In The U.s. Are Sold To White People Who Live In The Suburbs Or The Country. When We Fantasize About Being Mugged Or Home Invaded, What's The Image Of The Perpetrator In Our Heads? Is It The Freckled-face Kid From Down The Street - Or Is It Someone Who Is, If Not Black, At Least Poor?

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Yeah, I Think Of What I Do As A Work Of Journalism. It's More Like The Op-ed Page, Though. These Are My Opinions. My Point Of View. The Opinions Are Mine And I Let You Make Up Your Own Mind.

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I Think As A Filmmaker My First Contribution Would Just Be To Make A Good Movie That People Would Love To See And Leave The Theatre Charged, With A Sense Of Excitement.

Three Of The Top Six Documentaries Of All Time, Grossing, Are Made By Me.

Sometimes It's Important To Vote - You Know, To Make A Statement, To Make A Point; Certainly, Many Of Us Who Were Involved In The Nader Campaign In 2000 Felt That Way.

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A Sane Person Would Think That Wal-mart Would Never Carry 'capitalism: A Love Story' Because It's Simply Not In Their Best Interests To Inform Their Customers Of Their Shady Past.

We Have To See That We're A Part Of Each Other, And We Have To Take Care Of Each Other. The Reason Why They Have Universal Health Care In Canada And Britain, These Other Places? Because They Believe If One Suffers, Everybody Suffers.

I Made 'bowling For Columbine' In The Hope The School Shootings Would Stop And That We Would Address The Issue Of How Easy It Is To Get A Gun In The United States, And Tragically, Those School Shootings Continue.

I Like Buzzfeed, And I Understand The Pressure That Online Reporters Are Under. But I Think Everyone Agrees That, Despite All The Awesome Kitten Gifs, They're Still Obligated To Be Skeptical Of Government Officials And Ask The Right Questions.

It Turns Out Cuba Has This Incredible Healthcare System For A Very Poor Country.

Listen Friends, You Have To Face The Truth: You Are Never Going To Be Rich... The System Is Rigged In Favor Of The Few, And Your Name Is Not Among Them, Not Now And Not Ever.

I Never Know Why These People Talk To Me. I Would Not Talk To Me.

Middle Class Jobs Prevent Crime And Violence.

Nothing Seems Crueler--or More Ironic--than These Upper Crusters Who Never Pay A Dime For Their High-priced Shrinks Or Reflexology Sessions To Call Those Who Just Want That Tumor Removed From Their Uterus A Bunch Of Commies. Well, The Revolution Is At Hand And Let's Hope All Those Uninsured Commies Give The Rich Such A Headache That A Whole Bottle Of Advil Won't Be Enough To Take The Pain Way.

We Should Be Licensing Everybody With A Gun. I Have To Have A License For My Dog. I Have To Have A License For My Car. If You’re Going To Do My Hair Later You Have To Have A License ... We Don’t Require A License To Own A Firearm?

There's Not Democracy In The Workplace. I Mean, Through Most Of Our Daily Lives, The Idea Of Democracy Is Fairly Nonexistent. And I Think Things Work Better When The People Who Have To Work With Whatever It Is We're Working With Have A Say In How It's Working.

The Products Built In The Factories Of G.m., Ford And Chrysler Are Some Of The Greatest Weapons Of Mass Destruction Responsible For Global Warming And The Melting Of Our Polar Icecaps.

Mass Destruction

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I'm A Highly Flawed Individual, As We All Are, And Because I Was Raised By Jesuits, I'm Constantly, 'what Is It About Me And What I Can Do To Be Better?'

The Majority Of Americans, The Ones Who Never Elected George W. Bush, Are Not Fooled By His Weapons Of Mass Distraction.

I Want Us All To Face Our Fears And Stop Behaving Like Our Goal In Life Is To Merely Survive.

Back In The Late '90s, I Put Together A Humorous Newsmagazine Program Called 'the Awful Truth' For Bravo. We Helped One Guy Get An Organ Transplant Whose Insurance Company Had Refused To Pay. I Thought, If We Could Save A Guy's Life In A 10-minute Segment On Cable, What Could We Do If We Devoted A Whole Movie To A Whole Bunch Of People?

I Don't Want To Do Anything That Violates My Own Personal Code Of Ethics And Morals.

Ethics And Morals

A Common Denominator Among Big Guys Like Me Who Are Trying To Take Care Of Our Health Is That We're Not Getting Enough Sleep.

Clinton Was A Pretty Good President For A Republican.

By The End Of The Millenium Five Men Controlled The World's Media. And The People Rejoiced, Because Their Tvs Told Them To.

Documentaries Are A Form Of Journalism.

Maybe We Should Be Directing Our Anger Elsewhere - Like Toward Wall Street. Why Is It We Never Think Of Big Business When We Think Of Welfare Recipients? Companies Take More Of Our Tax Dollars, And In Much More Questionable Ways, Than Do Those Who Are Trying To Heat Their Apartments With A Kerosene Stove.

The Highest Courage Is To Dare To Be Yourself In The Face Of Adversity. Choosing Right Over Wrong, Ethic Over Convenience, And Truth Over Popularity ... These Are Choices That Measure Your Life. Travel The Path Of Integrity Without Looking Back, For There Is Never A Wrong Time To Do The Right Thing.

I Have A Rule: I Want The Pilot Flying Me Up In The Air At 30,000 Feet To Make More Than A Guy Working At Taco Bell.

I Have Never Owned A Share Of Stock In My Life, And The Only Time I've Double Dipped Into Anything Is At The Snack Tray.

A Lot Of People On Capitol Hill Don't Want To Talk To Me.

I'm Caught Up Probably Just As Much In The Consumer Culture As The Next Person.

Greed Has Been With Human Beings Forever. We Have A Number Of Things In Our Species That You Would Call 'the Dark Side,' And Greed Is One Of Them. If You Don't Put Certain Structures In Place Or Restrictions On Those Parts Of Our Being That Come From That Dark Place, Then It Gets Out Of Control.

The Media, The Corporations, The Politicians…have All Done Such A Good Job Of Scaring The American Public, It’s Come To The Point Where They Don’t Need To Give Any Reason At All.

If The Guy Out In The Woods With The Michigan Militia Is A Real Estate Negotiator, Instead Of Some Crackpot, And Has A Normal Life, That's Unnerving. You Don't Want To Think It's As Normal As The Guy Next Door, Hedging His Lawn. It's Easier To Demonize Or Separate Them Off From 'us.'

There Is No Terrorist Threat. Yes, There Have Been Horrific Acts Of Terrorism And, Yes, There Will Be Acts Of Terrorism Again. But That Doesn't Mean That There's Some Kind Of Massive Terrorist Threat.

I Have Enormous Respect For Anyone Who Would Offer To Sacrifice Their Life To Defend My Right To Live. Is There Any Greater Gift One Can Give Another?

I'm Not A Pundit. I'm Not An Analyst.

A Newspaper Is A Public Trust, And We Will Suffer As A Society Without Them. It Is Not The Internet That Has Killed Them. It Is Their Own Greed, It Is Their Own Stupidity, And It Is Capitalism That Has Taken Our Daily Newspapers From Us.

Oprah's Got Good Politics, She's Got A Good Heart, And She'll Have Us All Up Jazzercising At Six In The Morning. This Cannot Be A Bad Thing, And Reading A Book While We're Jazzercising. So America Would Be Better Off If Oprah Were President.

I Still Believe The Lessons I Learned When I Was Raised In A Roman Catholic Household. Like, It's Harder For A Rich Man To Get Into Heaven Than For A Camel To Go Through The Eye Of A Needle.

Librarians See Themselves As The Guardians Of The First Amendment. You Got A Thousand Mother Joneses At The Barricades! I Love The Librarians, And I Am Grateful For Them!

In Spite Of Bush's Win, The Majority Of Americans Still Think The Country Is Headed In The Wrong Direction (56%), Think The War Wasn't Worth Fighting (51%), And Don't Approve Of The Job George W. Bush Is Doing (52%).

Contrary To What Those In Power Would Like You To Believe So That You'll Give Up Your Pension, Cut Your Wages, And Settle For The Life Your Great-grandparents Had, America Is Not Broke. Not By A Long Shot. The Country Is Awash In Wealth And Cash.

400 Obscenely Rich People, Most Of Whom Benefited In Some Way From The Multi-trillion Dollar Taxpayer "bailout" Of 2008, Now Have As Much Loot, Stock And Property As The Assets Of 155 Million Americans Combined.

A Government Run By Billionaires For Billionaires Is An Affront To Freedom And Morality And Humanity.

I Remember The First Time I Received A Cassette Tape Of A Band Called The Clash. I Became An Instant Fan Of The Clash And Then Bought Their Albums After That And Went To Their Concerts And Gave Them My Money... But I First Got It For Free.

As Far As What I Do Love, I Love Birds; I Love Lavender.

Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People.

There's No Violence Coming From The Occupy Protesters.

I Want Us All To Face Our Fears And Stop Behaving Like Our Goal In Life Is To Merely Survive. "surviving" Is For Wimps And Game Show Contestants Stranded In The Jungle Or On A Desert Island. You Are Not Stranded. You Own The Store....you Deserve Better.

Maybe It's A Sick Fantasy Of Mine, But I Am Really Looking Forward To A Debate Between A General And A Deserter. Plus, I Really Want To Hear President Bush Have To Say, "yes, General, No, General."

You Do Not Have The Right To Take Another Human's Life, Unless It's In Strict Self-defense.

If One Job Doesn't Pay All The Bills, Don't Worry. You Can Get Another One And Another One And Another One.

The Difference Between Ignorant And Educated People Is That The Latter Know More Facts. But That Has Nothing To Do With Whether They Are Stupid Or Intelligent. The Difference Between Stupid And Intelligent People-and This Is True Whether Or Not They Are Well-educated-is That Intelligent People Can Handle Subtlety. They Are Not Baffled By Ambiguous Or Even Contradictory Situations-in Fact, They Expect Them And Are Apt To Become Suspicious When Things Seem Overly Straightforward.

I Have Been Aspiring To Write Some Sort Of Literature For A Long Time.

The Entire Business World Has Figured Out How To Make Huge Buckets Of Money Without Hiring Us To Work For Them.

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