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I Don't Want To Involve Myself In The Various Arguments About Why Israel Was Created . . . . . I Want To Deal With The Situation At Hand Which Is The Ongoing Killing On Both Sides. . . . . . . It's True That There's Also Much Oppression Of Palestinians In Arab Countries, Where Palestinians Aren't Allowed To Vote Or Own Property And Are Treated As Second Class Citizens And Pawns In The Fight Against Israel. But I'm Not Going To Spend My Time On This Since There Is Isn't A Whole Lot I Can Do About It.

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Michael Moore

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I Don't Want To Involve Myself In The Various Arguments About Why Israel Was Created . . . . . I Want To Deal With The Situation At Hand Which Is The Ongoing Killing On Both Sides. . . . . . . It's True That There's Also Much Oppression Of Palestinians In Arab Countries, Where Palestinians Aren't Allowed To Vote Or Own Property And Are Treated As Second Class Citizens And Pawns In The Fight Against Israel. But I'm Not Going To Spend My Time On This Since There Is Isn't A Whole Lot I Can Do About It.

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Today, Whether It Is A Student Who Holds A Sit-in To Get The Army Recruiters Off His Campus, Or The Mother Of A Dead Soldier Who Refuses To Leave The Front Gate Of The President's Ranch, We Continue To Be Saved By Brave People Who Risk Ridicule And Rejection But End Up Turning Huge Tides Of Public Opinion In The Direction Of Righteousness. We Owe Them Enormous Debts Of Gratitude. It Is Not Easy To Stand Up For What Is Right, Especially When Everyone Else Is Afraid To Leave The Comfortable Path Of Conformity.

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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.

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Bradley Manning

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It Really Is Disgusting When A Guy In A Ball Cap With A High School Education Is The One Asking The Tough Questions.

Tough Questions

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People Of My Age Who Went To College, Go Into College, You Know What It Cost Back Then? Nothing Or Next To Nothing. At The Most, You Had To Work At Dairy Queen During The Summer And That Would Pay For Your College Education.

When I Make A Film, I'm Not Doing It Purely For Political Reasons. If I Just Wanted To Do That, I'd Run For Office.

If We Don't Participate In It, It Ceases To Be A Democracy. So Obama Will Rise Or Fall Based Not So Much On What He Does But On What We Do To Support Him.

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.

The Money To Fund Great Things And Innovations And Programs Is Gone In Our Lifetime; It's All Gone To Debt. So We Won't Be Able To Solve Global Warming Or Have The Transportation That We Needed For The 21st Century. We Should Be Supporting People With Great Ideas, But It's Gone, And Now It's Gotta Be Paid Back With Interest To Banks In China.

We Like Nonfiction, And We Live In Fictitious Times.

The Motivation For War Is Simple. The U.s. Government Started The War With Iraq In Order To Make It Easy For U.s. Corporations To Do Business In Other Countries. They Intend To Use Cheap Labor In Those Countries, Which Will Make Americans Rich.

There's No Such Thing As Enough.

Ask Anyone On Social Security If Their Check Comes On Time Every Month. Like Clockwork. And It Comes Through The So-called Dilapidated U.s. Mail. My Dad's Check Literally Will Come On The Same Day Every Month. The Government Has Been Quite Good And Efficient At Creating A Number Of Systems.

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Making A Difference

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If You Believe In Equality, If You Believe In Standing Up For The Rights Of All, Especially For People Most Affected By Bigotry And Discrimination, Then You Have No Choice But To Be Present And Accounted For When It Comes To Standing Up For Gays And Lesbians In Our Society.

If You're White, And You Really Want To Help Change Things, Why Not Start With Yourself?

Hope For The Best Is What We Do, Right From The Moment We're Born.

Our Laws Demand That A Corporation Have A Fiduciary Responsibility With Shareholders To Maximize Profits. They Are Legally Required To Make As Much Money As Possible, Any Way Possible Within 'the Law.'

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.

All Of Our Political Parties Are Bought And Paid For By Corporate America, Wall Street, And The Wealthy Interests. The Republican Party More So, But The Democrats Take Their Share Of The Loot, Too.

You Think History Is Going To Remember The United States As A Great Democracy? No, They're Going To Think Of Us As A Nation That Became Addicted To War. They'll Call Us Warlords.

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 Believe That When You Provide Information To People, They Become Less Fearful And They Will Engage More In Their Democracy If They Are Empowered With Information.

Under Reagan Came The Idea Of Putting Your Pension Plan In The Stock Market, Which Wasn't A Guaranteed Pension.

The Media Love To Cover Black People On The Front Page. After All, When You Live In A Society That Will Lock Up About 30 Percent Of All Black Men At Some Time In Their Lives And Send More Of Them To Prison Than To College, Chances Are A Fair Number Of Those Black Faces Will End Up In The Newspaper.

A Majority Of This Country Opposes This War, A Majority Of This Country Never Voted For This Administration.

Fahrenheit 9/11: The Temperature Where Freedom Burns!

Any Time You Got The Pope And The Dixie Chicks Against You, Your Time Is Up.

So Is There A Difference Between Democrats And Republicans? Sure. The Democrats Say One Thing ("save The Planet!") And Then Do Another--quietly Holding Hands Behind The Scenes With The Bastards Who Make This World A Dirtier, Meaner Place. The Republicans Just Come Right Out And Give The Bastards A Corner Office In The West Wing. That's The Difference.

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

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

Capitalism Is An Organized System To Guarantee That Greed Becomes The Primary Force Of Our Economic System And Allows The Few At The Top To Get Very Wealthy And Has The Rest Of Us Riding Around Thinking We Can Be That Way, Too - If We Just Work Hard Enough, Sell Enough Tupperware And Amway Products, We Can Get A Pink Cadillac.

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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.

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

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.

I Had An Unusually Large-sized Head, Though This Was Not Uncommon For A Baby In The Midwest. The Craniums In Our Part Of The Country Were Designed To Leave A Little Extra Room For The Brain To Grow In Case One Day We Found Ourselves Exposed To Something We Didn't Understand, Like A Foreign Language, Or A Salad.

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