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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.

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Nothing Seems Crueler--or More

Michael Moore

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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.

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I Realized That This Was The Big Secret Of Democracy -- That Change Can Occur By Starting Off With Just A Few People Doing Something.

There's No Such Thing As Enough.

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

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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First Of All, The American People Are Inundated With Advertisement After Advertisement Of You Buy, Buy, Buy. You've Got To Have The Latest Thing. The Ipad 1 Isn't Any Good Anymore, You've Got To Have The Ipad 2. The Iphone 4, Now You've Got To Have Iphone 4s. Now You've Got To Have The 5b, Now You've Got To Have The 6c.

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Guarantees That

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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.

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

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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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If You're In A Diabetic Or Prediabetic State, It's Good To Have Medication To Go On For A Period Of Time. But Simply By Making The Changes - Get Your Sleep, 35 Grams Of Fiber And A Half-hour Walk - Your Cholesterol Will Come Down, Your Sugar Will Come Down, And Your Blood Pressure Will Come Down. Only The Minority Of People Can't Control It.

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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.

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This Book, 'stupid White Men,' Has Sold Now Over Four Million Copies Worldwide. Probably About Half Of That May Be In The U.s. And Canada, And The Rest, Overseas.

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When You Come From The Working Class And You Do Well Enough Whereby You Can Provide A Little Bit Better For Your Family, Get A Decent Roof Over Their Head And Send Them To A Good School, That's Considered A Good Thing.

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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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The Days Of Using My Name As A Pejorative Are Now Over. The Right Wing Turned Me Into An Accidental Spokesperson For The Liberal, Majority Agenda.

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Making A Difference

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?

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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.

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.

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.

I Rallied Against Clinton When He Was In Office. I Didn't Vote For Him In '96. I Didn't Vote For Gore In 2000.

Hey, Here's A Way To Stop Suicide Bombings - Give The Palestinians A Bunch Of Missile-firing Apache Helicopters And Let Them And The Israelis Go At Each Other Head To Head. Four Billion Dollars A Year To Israel - Four Billion Dollars A Year To The Palestinians - They Can Just Blow Each Other Up And Leave The Rest Of Us The Hell Alone.

Bush's Presidency Is Revisionism-proof. We're Going To Be Recovering From It For The Rest Of Our Lives.

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.

I - Honestly, I Don't Know Of A Worse Lie One Could Tell Other Than A Lie To Take A Country To War. To Make Up Things To Take People To War. That's Just Got To Be The Most Obscene, Immoral Thing To Do.

We All Need To Be Huge Supporters Of The Theatrical Documentary.

Nobody Was Talking About Healthcare Until 'sicko' Came Out.

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.

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.

Most People Don't See Themselves As Democrats Or Republicans. They See Themselves As Americans.

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

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.

I Say Stupid White Men Are Always The Problem. That's Never Going To Change.

A Lot Of Political People, Especially People On The Left, Have Forgotten The Importance Of Humor As An Incredible Weapon, And A Vehicle Through Which To Affect Change.

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

If There Ever Is A Struggle, Making A Good Movie Will Always Supersede The Need To Be Noble.

Somehow, I Don't Think Jesus Came To Earth To Ring The Bell At The New York Stock Exchange.

Every Parent Wants To Do What's Best For Their Child. Whatever I Can Afford, I'm Going To Get My Kid The Best Education I Can Get.

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

Politicians Never Keep All Their Promises.

What I'm Asking For Is A New Economic Order. I Don't Know How To Construct That; I'm Not An Economist.

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 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.

Most Americans, In Their Heart, Are Liberal And Progressive. It's Just A Small Minority Of People Who Hate, They Hate, They Exist In The Politics Of Hate, They Don't Believe Two Consenting Adults Should Have The Right To Be In Love And Share Their Lives Together And Be Legally Protected By The State.

I Like America To Some Extent.

There's Over A Billion People On This Planet That Don't Have Access To Clean Drinking Water.

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 Assume Everything I'm Saying In An Email Or Saying On The Telephone Is Being Looked At.

One Thing I Learned As A Journalist Is That There Is At Least One Disgruntled Person In Every Workplace In America - And At Least Double That Number With A Conscience. Hard As They Try, They Simply Can't Turn Their Heads Away From An Injustice When They See One Taking Place.

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.

We Live In The Time Where We Have Fictitious Election Results That Elects A Fictitious President. We Live In A Time Where We Have A Man Sending Us To War For Fictitious Reasons. Whether It's The Fictition Of Duct Tape Or Fictition Of Orange Alerts We Are Against This War, Mr. Bush. Shame On You. Mr. Bush, Shame On You. And Any Time You Got The Pope And The Dixie Chicks Against You, Your Time Is Up.

When The Women's Liberation Movement Began, When People Began Protesting Against The Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement, At The Beginning Of Those Movements, The Majority Of The Country Was Not With Them, Did Not Believe In The Basic Principles Of Any Of Those Philosophies.

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?'

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

Capitalism Would Have Never Let Me Be A Filmmaker, Living In Flint, Michigan With A High School Education. I Was Going To Have To Make That Happen Myself.

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 Did Not Like 'the Hurt Locker.' It's A Lazy Way To Make A Movie, Frankly. I Could Put You On The Edge Of Your Seat Quite Easily, And Have You Feel The Tension For 2 Hours, If Every Other Scene Practically Is, 'should We Cut The Red Wire Or The Green Wire?'

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.

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'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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

This Life Is A Gift, And To Reject That Gift Or Abuse That Gift Is Not Human And Not Worthy Of Us.

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.

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