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We Are The Richest Country In The World. We Spend More On Health Care Than Any Other Country. Yet We Have The Worst Health Care In The Western World. Come On. We Can Do Better Than This.

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We Are The Richest

Michael Moore

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We Are The Richest Country In The World. We Spend More On Health Care Than Any Other Country. Yet We Have The Worst Health Care In The Western World. Come On. We Can Do Better Than This.

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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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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

These Bastards Who Run Our Country Are A Bunch Of Conniving, Thieving, Smug Pricks Who Need To Be Brought Down And Removed And Replaced With A Whole New System That We Control.

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.

I'd Feel Bad If I Had You Come Into A Theater And You Leave Feeling Ripped Off.

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 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.

How Can There Be Inaccuracy In Comedy?

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

There's No Violence Coming From The Occupy Protesters.

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

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

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

And Realising That Humour Is The Most Powerful Way To Make A Political Statement And Say The Things That You Want To Say. And It's Not Used Enough, At Least Not In The U.s.

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

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.

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