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" Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us. "

" I don't want to be pigeonholed into the guy who's against everything. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what's good for General Motors is good for the country. So, their attitude was, 'We'll build it and you buy it. We'll tell you what to buy. You just buy it.' "

" 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. "

" It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick. "

" 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. "

" WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions. "

" L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals. "

" There's nothing pure about capitalism. "

" 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. "

" I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals. "

" 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? "

" You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful. "

" The American media wants to pump you full of fear. "

" The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills. "

" In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates. "

" 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. "

" I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks. "

" Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. "

" 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. "

" Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House. "