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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.

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Michael Moore

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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.

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I Don't Want People Leaving The Theater Depressed After My Movies. I Want Them Angry.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I'm Not A Pundit. I'm Not An Analyst. I Don't Want To Participate In The Existing Debate That's Going On About Whether Or Not You Should Be Able To Have As Many Guns As You Want To Have Or That Guns Are Even The Problem.

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

I Think People Should Start To Practice The Words 'president Romney.'

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.

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

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.

The Real Problem With The Irs Is That They Let General Electric Not Pay Any Taxes -- And 50 Other Corporations -- That's The Real Scandal.

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 Voted For The Black Guy, And What We Got Was The White Guy

I'll Tell You Who Doesn't Have Any Personal Responsibility. Companies Like General Electric And Others Who Pay Absolutely No Income Tax.

Jesus Told Us That We Would Be Judged By How We Treat The Least Among Us.

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.

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

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 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.

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 Want Americans To Realize That We Are The Owners Of This Country, And That One Person Can Make A Difference.

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