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We As Americans Believe It’s Ok To Kill People. We Believe It’s Ok To Invade A Country That Had Nothing To Do With 9/11. We Think It’s Ok To Invade A Country Where We Think Osama Bin Laden Is And He’s In The Other Country. So We Just Go In And We Just Kill. And We Have The Death Penalty, We Sanction It.

-Michael Moore

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We As Americans Believe

Michael Moore

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We As Americans Believe It’s Ok To Kill People. We Believe It’s Ok To Invade A Country That Had Nothing To Do With 9/11. We Think It’s Ok To Invade A Country Where We Think Osama Bin Laden Is And He’s In The Other Country. So We Just Go In And We Just Kill. And We Have The Death Penalty, We Sanction It.

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Should Such An Ignorant People Lead The World? How Did It Come To This In The First Place? 82 Percent Of Us Don't Even Have A Passport! Just A Handful Can Speak A Language Other Than English.

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.

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.

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.

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 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

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

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.

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.

Fahrenheit 9/11: The Temperature Where Freedom Burns!

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

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 Went Without Health Insurance Until 'roger & Me,' Basically - From About Age 20 Till About Age 35. With 'roger & Me,' I Joined The Directors Guild And The Writers Guild, And Since Then I've Had Excellent Health Care Managed By The Union.

My Employees, There's No Deductible In Your Health Care. No Deductible, Absolutely Not. You Get Paid Sick Days, As Many As You Need, Personal Days.

Well, "the Washington Post" Three Weeks Ago Had This Investigation And They Said That President Obama Has Now Raised More Money From Wall Street And The Banks For This Election Cycle Than All - Than All Eight Republicans Combined. I Don't Want To Say That, Because If That's The Truth, That Wall Street Already Has Their Man And His Name Is Barack Obama, Then We've Got A Much Bigger Problem.

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.

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

Private Health Insurance

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 Is The Responsibility Of Every Human To Know Their Actions And The Consequences Of Their Actions And To Ask Questions And To Question Things When They Are Wrong.

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

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

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