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" A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me. "
Michael Moore
Hill
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" 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. "
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" Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican. "
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Pretty
" 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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" The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks. "
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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. "
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" White people scare the crap out of me. "
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Scare
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Me
" For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well. "
Michael Moore
Documentary
Well
Very
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Health
Insurance
Age
" Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me. "
Michael Moore
Made
Time
Me
" I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that. "
Michael Moore
Own
Media
Everything
" 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. "
Michael Moore
War
Government
Rich
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Greed
Dark
You
" WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions. "
Michael Moore
Bless
Will
Save
" All art is about appealing to emotion. "
Michael Moore
Appealing
Art
About
" First of all, the American people are inundated with advertisement after advertisement of you buy, buy, buy. You've got to have the latest thing. The iPad 1 isn't any good anymore, you've got to have the iPad 2. The iPhone 4, now you've got to have iPhone 4S. Now you've got to have the 5b, now you've got to have the 6c. "
Michael Moore
You
People
Now
" It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick. "
Michael Moore
Off
Crime
Make
" 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. "
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You
Time
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" 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.' "
Michael Moore
Mean
Think
Say
" I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what's going on and to try to fix things that you see that aren't right. I believed that as a young person, and I believe that today. "
Michael Moore
You
Age
Today
" Most Americans are very responsible. "
Michael Moore
Responsible
Very
Most
" Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president. "
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Book
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Politics
" I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person. "
Michael Moore
Consumer
Person
Up
" You know, an opinion can be right or wrong. "
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You
Right
Wrong
" In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates. "
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Ticket
Vote
You
" 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? "
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Sitting
Cave
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" Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state. "
Michael Moore
Constitution
Law
Two
" Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address. "
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Government
Most
Must
" 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. "
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Control
Think
Problems
" Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison. "
Michael Moore
Specialist
Army
Medal
" I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes. "
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Me
Well
Spinning