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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.

-Michael Moore

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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.

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There's Over A Billion People On This Planet That Don't Have Access To Clean Drinking Water.

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

Capitalism Is An Organized System To Guarantee That Greed Becomes The Primary Force Of Our Economic System And Allows The Few At The Top To Get Very Wealthy And Has The Rest Of Us Riding Around Thinking We Can Be That Way, Too - If We Just Work Hard Enough, Sell Enough Tupperware And Amway Products, We Can Get A Pink Cadillac.

Guarantees That

There's No Such Thing As Enough.

Everybody Gets Sick; Everybody Has Had A Problem With Insurance Or The Prescription Drugs They're Supposed To Be Taking Or An Elderly Parent Who Needs Care.

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

The Movie Theater Is Never Going Away. If That Was A Case Why Are There Still Restaurants? People Still Have Kitchens In Their Home!

I've Always Felt So Grateful That I Dropped Out Of School, That I Never Had To Do A Thesis. I Wouldn't Know How To Organise And Structure Myself To Film So That B Follows A And C Follows B.

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

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

I Don't Support The Troops, America, And Neither Do You.

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.

As A Quiet Salute To Beavis And Butthead, I Held Up My Index Finger And Thumb In An "l"-the International Sign For Loser.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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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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.

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