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When You Come From The Working Class And You Do Well Enough Whereby You Can Provide A Little Bit Better For Your Family, Get A Decent Roof Over Their Head And Send Them To A Good School, That's Considered A Good Thing.

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When You Come From

Michael Moore

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When You Come From The Working Class And You Do Well Enough Whereby You Can Provide A Little Bit Better For Your Family, Get A Decent Roof Over Their Head And Send Them To A Good School, That's Considered A Good Thing.

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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.

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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.

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

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.'

You Do Not Have The Right To Take Another Human's Life, Unless It's In Strict Self-defense.

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.

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

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

I Don't Compromise My Values And I Don't Compromise My Work. That's Why I've Been Kicked From One Network To The Next: I Won't Give In.

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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.

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If The Guy Out In The Woods With The Michigan Militia Is A Real Estate Negotiator, Instead Of Some Crackpot, And Has A Normal Life, That's Unnerving. You Don't Want To Think It's As Normal As The Guy Next Door, Hedging His Lawn. It's Easier To Demonize Or Separate Them Off From 'us.'

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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

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

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Mass Destruction

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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.

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.

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.

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!

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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!

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.

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.

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.

The No. 1 Cause Of Bankruptcies Is Medical Bills.

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

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.

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.

Clinton Was A Pretty Good President For A Republican.

I'm Going To Guess Republicans And Democrats, Liberals And Conservatives, All Want Clean Air To Breathe And Clean Water To Drink. I'm Sure Most People Think Women Should Be Paid The Same As Men If They're Doing The Same Job. I Think We All Want Good Schools For Our Kids. If We Made That List, We Actually Are In Agreement On More Things.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

As Far As What I Do Love, I Love Birds; I Love Lavender.

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.

I've Been Encouraging Documentary Filmmakers To Use More And More Humor, And They're Loath To Do That Because They Think If It's A Documentary It Has To Be Deadly Serious - It Has To Be Like Medicine That You're Supposed To Take. And I Think It's What Keeps The Mass Audience From Going To Documentaries.

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 - 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.

White People Scare The Crap Out Of Me.

I Did Not Like 'the Hurt Locker.' It's A Lazy Way To Make A Movie, Frankly. I Could Put You On The Edge Of Your Seat Quite Easily, And Have You Feel The Tension For 2 Hours, If Every Other Scene Practically Is, 'should We Cut The Red Wire Or The Green Wire?'

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.

The Worst Way To Defend Our Freedom Is To Let Our Leaders Start Taking Away Our Freedoms! It Is Exactly During Times Like These [a National Crisis] That We Need More Freedom Of Speech, A Strong And Critical Press, And A Citizenry That Is Not Afraid To Stand Up And Say That The Emperor Has No Clothes.

I Like Buzzfeed, And I Understand The Pressure That Online Reporters Are Under. But I Think Everyone Agrees That, Despite All The Awesome Kitten Gifs, They're Still Obligated To Be Skeptical Of Government Officials And Ask The Right Questions.

If Anything, I Don't Have To Convince The American Public That We Have A Broken Health-care System. I Think The Majority Of Americans Since They Have To Go Through That Health-care System, Already Know It.

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.

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.

I Have Never Owned A Share Of Stock In My Life, And The Only Time I've Double Dipped Into Anything Is At The Snack Tray.

Today Just 400 Americans Have More Wealth Than Half Of All Americans Combined.

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

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

One Day There'll Be No Need For Me. I'm Actually Hoping To Put Myself Out Of Business.

400 Obscenely Rich People, Most Of Whom Benefited In Some Way From The Multi-trillion Dollar Taxpayer "bailout" Of 2008, Now Have As Much Loot, Stock And Property As The Assets Of 155 Million Americans Combined.

I'm A Religious Fanatic? Yes, I Am, Actually.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Sometimes It's Important To Vote - You Know, To Make A Statement, To Make A Point; Certainly, Many Of Us Who Were Involved In The Nader Campaign In 2000 Felt That Way.

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

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

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

If You're White, And You Really Want To Help Change Things, Why Not Start With Yourself?

Wall Street, The Banks, And Corporate America, Has Been Able To Call The Shots Here. They Control Our Members Of Congress And They Get What They Want.

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.

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