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My Mum Taught Me How To Read Before I Went To Kindergarden, I Always Thought That Being Able To Read Provided Lightness, Help To Dispel Darkness, Ignorance And Stupidity.

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My Mum Taught Me

Michael Moore

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My Mum Taught Me How To Read Before I Went To Kindergarden, I Always Thought That Being Able To Read Provided Lightness, Help To Dispel Darkness, Ignorance And Stupidity.

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For My Very First Movie, 'roger And Me,' I Made It As Part Of My Deal With Warner Brothers That The Four People That Were Evicted In That Film, That Warner Brothers Would House - Would Pay Their Mortgage Or Their Rent For The Next Two Years To Give Them A Chance To Get On Their Feet.

I Think That There's Something In The American Psyche, It's Almost This Kind Of Right Or Privilege, This Sense Of Entitlement, To Resolve Our Conflicts With Violence. There's An Arrogance To That Concept If You Think About It. To Actually Have To Sit Down And Talk, To Listen, To Compromise, That's Hard Work.

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.

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."

It Should Be A Crime To Make A Profit Off Somebody Being Sick.

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I Don't 'support The Troops' Or Any Of Those Other Hollow And Hypocritical Platitudes Uttered By Republicans And Frightened Democrats. Here's What I Do Support: I Support Them Coming Home. I Support Them Being Treated Well.

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.'

White People Scare The Crap Out Of Me. I Have Never Been Attacked By A Black Person, Never Been Evicted By A Black Person, Never Had My Security Deposit Ripped Off By A Black Landlord, Never Had A Black Landlord, Never Been Pulled Over By A Black Cop, Never Been Sold A Lemon By A Black Car Salesman, Never Seen A Black Car Salesman, Never Had A Black Person Deny Me A Bank Loan, Never Had A Black Person Bury My Movie, And I've Never Heard A Black Person Say, 'we're Going To Eliminate Ten Thousand Jobs Here - Have A Nice Day!'

I Don't Agree With The Copyright Laws And I Don't Have A Problem With People Downloading The Movie And Sharing It With People As Long As They're Not Doing It To Make A Profit Off My Labor. You Share Things With People And I Think Information, And Art, And Ideas Should Be Shared.

But I'm Not A Member Of The Democratic Party. If You Know Anything About Me, Anybody Who's Followed Me, I'm The Anti-democrat. I Have Railed Against The Democrats For A Long Time.

If You Reduce The Guns And The Ammo, You'll Reduce The Murders.

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I Had A Newspaper In Flint, Michigan Called The 'flint Voice,' And So It Was A, You Know, Underground, Alternative Newspaper That I Edited And Put Out For About Ten Years.

There's No Violence Coming From The Occupy Protesters.

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I'm Not A Proselytizer. I Was Raised Catholic. I Am A Catholic.

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

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Capitalism Is An Evil, And You Cannot Regulate Evil. You Have To Eliminate It And Replace It With Something That Is Good For All People And That Something Is Democracy.

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All I Ask Is That You Not Be Naive About How The Government Works When It Decides To Go After Its Prey.

I Was One Of The First 18-year-olds In The United States Elected To Public Office Right After 18-year-olds Got The Right To Vote Back In The Early '70s. I Ran For The Board Of Education.

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The Nra Hates Freedom. They Don't Want You To Have The Freedom To Send Your Children To School & Expect Them To Come Home Alive.

I Don't Compromise My Values And I Don't Compromise My Work. That's Why I've Been Kicked From One Network To The Next: I Won't Give In.

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.

Most Liberals I Know Were For Invading Afghanistan Right After 9/11.

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People Like Me Who Grew Up In A Working-class Town, Who Don't Have A College Education, You Don't Usually Hear From Us.

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You Know He's [george W. Bush] There Illegally. You Know He Was Not Elected Either By The Popular Vote Or By The Vote In Florida.

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Every Fact In My Films Is True. And Yet How Often Do I Have To Read Over And Over Again About Supposed Falsehoods?

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I'm A Citizen In A Democracy. To Call Me An Activist Would Be Redundant. It's Not A Spectator Sport. If We All Become Non-participants, It No Longer Works.

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L.a. - Talk About A Cruel City: Patients Are Forcibly Removed From Hospitals.

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Wikileaks, God Bless Them, Will Save Lives As A Result Of Their Actions.

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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.

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

We Reward People For Making Money Off Money, And Moving Money Around And Dividing Up Mortgages A Thousand Times Over, Selling It To China... And It Becomes This Shell Game.

The Health Insurance Industry Does Not Like To Pay Out Claims, Because They Don't Make Money. The Only Way They Can Make A Profit Is If They Don't Pay For Your Operation. If They Pay For Your Operation And Your Doctor's Appointment And Your Pharmaceuticals, They Don't Make Any Money.

You Know We Are Flawed People, So If Someone Is Going To Make A Movie About Me, They Don't Have To Make It Up. My Real Flaws Are Much Funnier.

In America, We Don't, In Daily Discourse, Use The Words 'capitalism' Or 'socialism.' They've Been Kind Of Nonexistent Words, I Would Say, Amongst The General Public.

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.

How About That Mcdonald's Two Blocks From Ground Zero? That's Killed More People Than The 19 Hijackers.

I'm Actually A Fairly Conservative Person. I Live A Very Conservative Lifestyle.

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As The Country Continues To Dissect The Recent Natural Disaster, We Might Want To Start Considering What About The Disaster Wasn't Actually 'natural' At All. ... Human Activity, The Burning Of Fossil Fuels, Is Causing Global Warming. Global Warming Is Causing The Oceans To Warm. Warm Oceans Are Steroids For Storms.

I'm Very Blessed And Fortunate That People Want To Go See My Movies.

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.

There Should Be No Private Health Insurance Companies Operating For Profit.

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The Economic System That The United States Has Is An Evil Empire. It's An Economic System That's Not Fair, Not Just, And It's Not Democratic. And It Will Fall Just Like Communism Fell. The Richest 1 Percent Now Own 50 Percent Of The Wealth. It Didn't Use To Be That Way. The Average Ceo 20 Years Ago Made 20 Times As Much As The Average Employee. Now They Make 212 Times As Much.

I Think There Are Few Things More Patriotic Than Taking The Time To Make Your Country A Better Place.

The Justice Department Needs To Investigate How Goldman Sachs Was Able To Steer Things In Such A Manner Through Their Former Employees In The Bush Administration, So That In The End Goldman's Competitors Have Disappeared And Goldman Is Left Standing.

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

'zero Dark Thirty' Is A Disturbing, Fantastically-made Movie. It Will Make You Hate Torture.

There's Politics In All Aspects Of Our Daily Lives.

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.

Documentaries Are A Form Of Journalism.

I Mean If Politics Was My Main Motivation I Would Be Doing Politics. But I'm A Filmmaker.

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!

I'm Going To Guess Republicans And Democrats, Liberals And Conservatives, All Want Clean Air To Breathe And Clean Water To Drink. I'm Sure Most People Think Women Should Be Paid The Same As Men If They're Doing The Same Job. I Think We All Want Good Schools For Our Kids. If We Made That List, We Actually Are In Agreement On More Things.

My Dad Was An Assembly Line Worker At Ac Spark Plug, Which Was A Division Of General Motors, And His Job Was To Build And Then Inspect The Little Spark Plugs As They Came Off The Line.

My Films Don't Have Instant Impact Because They're Dense With Ideas That People Have Not Thought About. It Takes A While For The American Public To Wrap Its Head Around Some Of The Things I'm Saying.

I've Read Stories Of Slave Owners Who Were Very Generous. They Didn't Keep Them In Shackles, They Didn't Whip The Slaves, They Built Schools And Churches For Them, Free Housing, Free Food, Free Everything. It's Wrong. No Matter How Nice You Make It Look, It's Wrong.

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There's A Gullible Side To The American People. They Can Be Easily Misled. Religion Is The Best Device Used To Mislead Them.

The Iraqis Who Have Risen Up Against The Occupation Are Not 'insurgents' Or 'terrorists' Or 'the Enemy.' They Are The Revolution, The Minutemen, And Their Numbers Will Grow - And They Will Win.

How Can There Be Inaccuracy In Comedy?

Television Has Its Own Award. It's Called The Emmy. It's A Good Award. I Like It. I Have One. But You Don't See Movies Like 'the King's Speech' Win Oscars And Then Go To Tv And Qualify For Emmys. In Documentaries, Some Networks Have Been Able To Game The System.

I Certainly Believe That I Have No Right To Tell Another Couple Whether They Can Or Cannot Be Married.

Halliburton Is Not A 'company' Doing Business In Iraq. It Is A War Profiteer, Bilking Millions From The Pockets Of Average Americans. In Past Wars They Would Have Been Arrested – Or Worse.

Horace's Best Ode Would Not Please A Young Woman As Much As The Mediocre Verses Of The Young Man She Is In Love With.

No 22-year-old Should Have To Enter The Real World Already In A Virtual Debtors' Prison.

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.

For A Documentary Filmmaker, I Do Very Well.

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

The No. 1 Cause Of Bankruptcies Is Medical Bills.

I Take Much Of The Attacks And The Criticism Toward Me As Being Very Class-based, But As Americans We Don't Like To Acknowledge That Reality.

If I Were A Capitalist I Would Not Give My Employees Health Insurance With No Deductible, Which I Do, Including Dental, And Paid Pregnancy Leave. That's Not Called Capitalism, That's Called Being A Christian And Someone Who Believes In Democracy, So That Everyone Should Get A Fair Slice Of The Pie.

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.

This Is The Crux Of The Problem: Because The Republicans And The Right Wing Have Been Successful In Almost Eliminating Unions, Everyone Else Has Suffered As A Result.

My Uncle Killed By Sniper In Ww2. We Were Taught Snipers Were Cowards. Will Shoot U In The Back. Snipers Aren't Heroes. And Invaders R Worse.

I've Always Felt So Grateful That I Dropped Out Of School, That I Never Had To Do A Thesis. I Wouldn't Know How To Organise And Structure Myself To Film So That B Follows A And C Follows B.

If We Didn't Have Social Security, Our Seniors Would Live Mostly In Poverty. You'd Have Another 18 Million People In Poverty.

I Think I'm In The Majority Of Americans. I Believe That I Am In The Mainstream Of Middle America.

I Was Kind Of A Strange Child. My Parents Knew Early On That Something Must Have Been Wrong With Me. I Crawled Backwards Until I Was Two, But Had Kennedy's Inaugural Address Memorized By The Time I Was Six.

Republicans Are Relentless And They're Smart, Too - They're Not All Dumb - And On Election Day, They'll Be Up At Five In The Morning.

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'm Interested To See What Happens With Fox News And Phone Hacking. I Really Can't Believe It Just Happens In Great Britain. Because Really, Who Cares About Just Hacking Phones Over There?

In Some States, You Can Vote A Straight Party Ticket, But You Can't Vote For Individual Candidates.

Who Among Us Is Not At A Loss For Words? Tears Pour Out. Tears Of Joy. Tears Of Relief. A Stunning, Whopping Landslide Of Hope In A Time Of Deep Despair. In A Nation That Was Founded On Genocide And Then Built On The Backs Of Slaves, It Was An Unexpected Moment, Shocking In Its Simplicity: Barack Obama, A Good Man, A Black Man, Said He Would Bring Change To Washington, And The Majority Of The Country Liked That Idea.

There's Nothing Pure About Capitalism.

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?

If Anything, I Don't Have To Convince The American Public That We Have A Broken Health-care System. I Think The Majority Of Americans Since They Have To Go Through That Health-care System, Already Know It.

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

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.

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?'

They Are Possibly The Dumbest People On The Planet... We Americans Suffer From An Enforced Ignorance. We Don't Know About Anything That's Happening Outside Our Country. Our Stupidity Is Embarrassing.

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.

Middle Class Jobs Prevent Crime And Violence.

Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People.

I Just Decided To Make A Movie. I Had No Training, No Film School, But I Had Been To A Lot Of Movies.

The Left, Liberals, Believe That If We Just Have More Gun Control Laws, All The Problems Are Going To Go Away. Well, I Don't Think So. I Don't Think So. I Think - Yes, It Will, It Will Be Reduced. There's No Question About That.

I Don't Even Like Dvds. Honest To God, In My Lifetime, I Might Have Rented A Dozen Dvds, Literally Gone Into A Video Store And Rented A Dozen Dvds In My Lifetime, Because I Don't Like To See Movies That Way. I Like To See Them On The Big Screen.

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.

There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We've Been Told.

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.

We're Never Gonna Get Rid Of Crazy People. They've Been Around For Thousands Of Years - They'll Continue To Be Around; They'll Continue To Do Horrible Things.

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.

Because I Have An Opinion, I Have Become Public Enemy Number One To The Fox News Channel And The Right Wing.

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

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

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

I've Always Been Sort Of Confused By The Trajectory My Life Has Taken. I Was Supposed To Be On An Assembly Line Building Buicks.

I Don't Like To Sit Around Whining About The Corporate Media, How They Control Everything, Own Everything. We Already Know That.

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.

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

I Was Taught From A Very Early Age That It Was Probably The Most American Thing You Can Do Is To Question What's Going On And To Try To Fix Things That You See That Aren't Right. I Believed That As A Young Person, And I Believe That Today.

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

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.

One Of The Most Ironic Things About Capitalism Is That The Capitalist Will Sell You The Rope To Hang Himself With. Actually They Will Give You The Money To Make A Movie That Makes Them Look Bad, If They Believe They Can Make Money Off It.

We Should All Spend Some Time Of Our Life Doing Service To Our Country. To Me, I Would Give Up A Couple Of Years.

North Korea Has Taught A Great Lesson To All The Countries In The World, Especially The Rogue Countries Of Dictatorships Or Whatever: If You Don't Want To Be Invaded By America, Get Some Nuclear Weapons.

Clearly I Am A Person Who Suffers From A Lack Of Ego.

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.

The American Public Believes That Health Care Is A Right And Not A Commodity.

It's A Lot Of Hard Work To Do A Weekly Tv Show. It's Certainly Not Fun.

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.

White People Scare The Crap Out Of Me.

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.

Guarantees That

New York City Has Become A Place Where It's Not Easy For The Working Class To Even Live.

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

As A Quiet Salute To Beavis And Butthead, I Held Up My Index Finger And Thumb In An "l"-the International Sign For Loser.

Occupy Has To Continue As A Bold, In-your-face Movement - Occupying Banks, Corporate Headquarters, Board Meetings, Campuses And Wall Street Itself. We Need Weekly - If Not Daily - Nonviolent Assaults Right On Wall Street.

Building Up The Arms Did Not Cause The Fall Of Eastern Europe.

The Upper 1 Percent, The People Down On Wall Street, The Corporate Executives, They're The People That Control This Economy.

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.

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.

Back In The '80s And '90s, When Gm Was Consistently Posting Giant Profits, They Were Simultaneously Firing Tens Of Thousands Of Workers In My Hometown Of Flint And Across Michigan.

If Someone Did This Fahrenheit 9/11 To Get Back At Bush, Then They Did So By Killing Thousands Of People Who Did Not Vote For Him! Boston, New York, D.c., And The Planes' Destination Of California - These Were Places That Voted Against Bush!

Capitalism And Democracy Are The Opposite Of Each Other. Capitalism Is A System That Guarantees That A Few Are Going To Do Very Well, And Everybody Else Is Going To Serve The Few. Democracy Means Everybody Has A Seat At The Table. Everybody.

Guarantees That

I Respect The Fact That People Have Worked Hard All Week And Want To Go To The Movies On The Weekend And Be Entertained.

I Really Didn't Realize The Librarians Were, You Know, Such A Dangerous Group. They Are Subversive. You Think They're Just Sitting There At The Desk, All Quiet And Everything. They're Like Plotting The Revolution, Man. I Wouldn't Mess With Them. You Know, They've Had Their Budgets Cut. They're Paid Nothing. Books Are Falling Apart. The Libraries Are Just Like The Ass End Of Everything, Right?

I've Never Supported This Concept Of Going After Napster. I Think The Rock Bands Who Fought This Were Wrong.

Transporting Americans Is And Should Be One Of The Most Important Functions Our Government Must Address.

The Wealthy Have Never Liked To Pay For The Labor That Enriches Them. Ever Since Slavery Was Eliminated, They Have Been Trying To Keep It As Close To Slavery As They Can Without Violating The Slave Laws.

There's No Such Thing As Enough.

Many Criminals Believe What They Say Is True; They Could Pass A Lie Detector Test.

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

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