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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.

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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.

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Tough Questions

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.

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.

No One Is Entertained By Economics.

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.

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.

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."

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

Fahrenheit 9/11: The Temperature Where Freedom Burns!

I Have Enormous Respect For Anyone Who Would Offer To Sacrifice Their Life To Defend My Right To Live. Is There Any Greater Gift One Can Give Another?

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

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.

Clinton Was A Pretty Good President For A Republican.

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?'

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.

I Hate To Say It, But Killing Is Our Way. We Began America With Genocide, Then Built It With Slaves. The Shootings Will Continue. It's Who We Are.

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?

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

By The End Of The Millenium Five Men Controlled The World's Media. And The People Rejoiced, Because Their Tvs Told Them To.

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.

Here's What I Don't Think Works: An Economic System That Was Founded In The 16th Century And Another That Was Founded In The 19th Century. I'm Tired Of This Discussion Of Capitalism And Socialism; We Live In The 21st Century, We Need An Economic System That Has Democracy As Its Underpinnings And An Ethical Code.

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.

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.

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'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.

Army Specialist Bradley Manning Deserves A Medal, Not Prison.

Bradley Manning

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.

If The Founding Fathers Could Have Looked Into A Crystal Ball And Seen Ak-47s And Glock Semi-automatic Pistols, I Think They Would Say, You Know, 'that's Not Really What We Mean When We Say Bear Arms.'

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.

You Survive By Having Your Fear Compass Calibrated Correctly. Our Compass Is Off Now Because We're Being Told To Be Afraid Of Everything. The Things That We're Frightened Of, Or Told To Be Frightened Of, Are Not Necessarily The Things That We Need To Fear.

I Say One Evil Empire Down...one To Go.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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I Ask All Americans With A Conscience To Shun Anything And Everything To Do With The Murderous State Of Georgia.

Anything And Everything

We Are Not Documentarians, We Are Filmmakers.

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

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I'm A Millionaire, I'm A Multi-millionaire, I'm Filthy Rich. You Know Why I'm A Multi-millionaire? 'cause Multi-millions Like What I Do.

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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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

My Dad Was An Autoworker, My Mom Was A Clerk. Until I Was Thirty-five, I Never Made More Than Fifteen Thousand Dollars A Year.

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.

The Majority Of Americans, The Ones Who Never Elected George W. Bush, Are Not Fooled By His Weapons Of Mass Distraction.

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

Capitalism Is Against The Things That We Say We Believe In - Democracy, Freedom Of Choice, Fairness. It's Not About Any Of Those Things Now. It's About Protecting The Wealthy And Legalizing Greed.

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

You Can't Regulate Child Labor. You Can't Regulate Slavery. Some Things Are Just Wrong.

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.

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

It Turns Out Cuba Has This Incredible Healthcare System For A Very Poor Country.

The Difference Between Ignorant And Educated People Is That The Latter Know More Facts. But That Has Nothing To Do With Whether They Are Stupid Or Intelligent. The Difference Between Stupid And Intelligent People-and This Is True Whether Or Not They Are Well-educated-is That Intelligent People Can Handle Subtlety. They Are Not Baffled By Ambiguous Or Even Contradictory Situations-in Fact, They Expect Them And Are Apt To Become Suspicious When Things Seem Overly Straightforward.

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

Before There Were Unions, There Was No Middle Class.

The American Media Wants To Pump You Full Of Fear.

Post-war Filmmakers Gave Us The Documentary, Rob Reiner Gave Us The Mockumentary And Moore Initiated A Third Genre, The Crockumentary.

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

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

There's No Violence Coming From The Occupy Protesters.

You Can't Debate Satire. Either You Get It Or You Don't.

Healthcare Should Be Between The Doctor And The Patient. And If The Doctor Says Something Needs To Be Done, The Government Should Guarantee It Gets Paid For.

Every Night I Watch The Nightly News. It's Funded By The Pharmaceutical Companies. Virtually Every Ad Is A Drug Ad. They Get Their Say Every Night On The Nightly News Through Advertising.

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

It's Not Surprising To Me That In A Country Born Of Racial Genocide, The Issue Of Race Is Still An Open Wound On The American Soul. We Haven't Dealt With It.

Listen Friends, You Have To Face The Truth: You Are Never Going To Be Rich... The System Is Rigged In Favor Of The Few, And Your Name Is Not Among Them, Not Now And Not Ever.

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.

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 Want People Leaving The Theater Depressed After My Movies. I Want Them Angry.

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

A Newspaper Is A Public Trust, And We Will Suffer As A Society Without Them. It Is Not The Internet That Has Killed Them. It Is Their Own Greed, It Is Their Own Stupidity, And It Is Capitalism That Has Taken Our Daily Newspapers From Us.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I've Made A Lot Of Enemies In All The Right Places, And There Aren't Enough Hours In The Day To Respond To Either The Well-financed Corporate Hacks Or The Lowly Stalkers Who Seek To Libel Me Or Make A Buck Off The Fact That I'm A Well-known Person.

Hours In The Day

I May Be Preaching To The Choir, But The Choir Needs A Good Song.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

White People Scare The Crap Out Of Me.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

They May Rail At This Life - From The Hour I Began It, I've Found It A Life Full Of Kindness And Bliss; And Until They Can Show Me Some Happier Planet. More Social And Bright, I'll Content Me With This.

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.

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

It's All Part Of The Same Ball Of Wax, Right? The Oil Companies, Israel, Halliburton.

In Accordance To The Principles Of Doublethink, It Does Not Matter If The War Is Not Real, Or When It Is, That Victory Is Not Possible. The War Is Not Meant To Be Won. It Is Meant To Be Continuous. The Essential Act Of Modern Warfare Is The Destruction Of The Produce Of Human Labour. A Hierarchical Society Is Only Possible On The Basis Of Poverty And Ignorance. In Principle, The War Effort Is Always Planned To Keep Society On The Brink Of Starvation. The War Is Waged By The Ruling Group Against Its Own Subjects, And Its Object Is Not Victory Over Eurasia Or Eastasia, But To Keep The Very Structure Of Society Intact.

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

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

The 'fiscal Cliff' Is A Ruse, An Invention By The Right And The Rich, To Try And Keep Their Huge Tax Breaks.

[librarians] 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Media, The Corporations, The Politicians…have All Done Such A Good Job Of Scaring The American Public, It’s Come To The Point Where They Don’t Need To Give Any Reason At All.

You Share Things With People And I Think Information, And Art, And Ideas Should Be Shared.

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.

For A Documentary Filmmaker, I Do Very Well.

There's Been Almost A Dozen Films That Have Been Made Against Me. There's Actually More Films Made Attacking Me Than Films I've Made.

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.

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

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.

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.

What The Media Are Telling You To Be Afraid Of Are The Wrong Things. Fear Is A Necessary Ingredient Of Our Survival Instincts.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

No Decisions Should Ever Be Made Without Asking The Question, Is This For The Common Good?

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 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.

'champagne' And 'breathmint' Are The First Two Words All Oscar Winners Hear.

I Want Us All To Face Our Fears And Stop Behaving Like Our Goal In Life Is To Merely Survive.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Now That I Exist In The Mainstream Majority, I'm Not Really So Controversial Any More, Am I? Not Really News.

The Purpose Of Art Actually Is, In Many Cases, To Make You Feel Quite Uncomfortable. Or At Least To Go To That Place That's Already Of Discomfort Inside Of You And Tap Into That.

Filmmakers And Artists Always Thrive During More Liberal Times.

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.

I'm The Kind Of Person That Believes There's A Part Of Your Voting That Has To Be Purely On Principle, And There's A Part That Has To Be On Strategy.

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

The No. 1 Cause Of Bankruptcies Is Medical Bills.

I Personally Hold Blair More Responsible For This War Than I Do George Bush. The Reason Is, Blair Knows Better, Blair Is Not An Idiot. What Is He Doing Hanging Around This Guy?

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

Making A Difference

I And You And Everyone Else Has To Be A Political Activist.

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

My Film About Bush Didn't Prevent His Reelection.

There's Only One Movie Theater In The Entire City Of Detroit. The Entire City Has One Open Movie Theater, And It Is In The - It Is In The General Motors Headquarters Complex.

I'm From The Midwest, And Guys Like Me Don't Go On Diets. We Don't Do Well On Spinning Classes.

Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People.

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

Capitalism Means That A Few People Will Do Very Well, And The Rest Will Serve The Few.

Our Laws Demand That A Corporation Have A Fiduciary Responsibility With Shareholders To Maximize Profits. They Are Legally Required To Make As Much Money As Possible, Any Way Possible Within 'the Law.'

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 A Religious Fanatic? Yes, I Am, Actually.

Religious Fanatics

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 - 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.

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.

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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