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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?

-Michael Moore

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We Should Be Licensing

Michael Moore

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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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I Think That There's Something In The American Psyche, It's Almost This Kind Of Right Or Privilege, This Sense Of Entitlement, To Resolve Our Conflicts With Violence. There's An Arrogance To That Concept If You Think About It. To Actually Have To Sit Down And Talk, To Listen, To Compromise, That's Hard Work.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

[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.

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'm Actually A Fairly Conservative Person. I Live A Very Conservative Lifestyle.

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.

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.

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!

How Could A Guy Sitting In A Cave In Afghanistan, Have... Plotted So Perfectly The Hijacking Of Four Planes And Then Guaranteed That Three Of Them Would End Up Precisely On Their Targets?

Nobody Has Been Arrested On Wall Street For The Crash Of 2008. They're Not Paying Their Fair Share Of The Taxes. And Now With The Citizens United Case Of The Supreme Court, They Get To Buy Politicians Up Out In The Open.

Citizens United

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

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

There's Nothing Inherently Or Patently Wrong With Anybody Who Does Well, Works Hard, Earns A Living, Betters Themselves. I'm Not Against Any Of These Things. It's About How You Make That Money, And Then What You Do With It.

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