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" As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices. "
Michael Moore
Free
Good
You
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" I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle. "
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" All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. "
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" 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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" One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class. "
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" I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks. "
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" 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. "
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" New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live. "
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" I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire. I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do. "
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" Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks - most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 - now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined. "
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" If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself? "
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" Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. "
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" My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying. "
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" In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public. "
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" Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test. "
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" Documentaries are a form of journalism. "
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" 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. "
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Good
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" I like America to some extent. "
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" The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps. "
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" It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun. "
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" I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education. "
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" Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. "
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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. "
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" I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals. "
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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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