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" 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. "

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" I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there? "

Michael Moore

News

Phone

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" A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us. "

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

" Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things. "

" I like America to some extent. "

" I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference. "

" I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that. "

" When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained. "

" There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters. "

" It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country. "

" Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down. "

" 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. "

" The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win. "

" 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. "

" Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get. "

" 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. "

" Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives. "

" I don't believe that the Bush Administration had something to do with September 11th. I do believe that there were a lot of warning signals, but I don't think they were ignored on purpose - Bush just wanted to go to the ranch for a month. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. "

Michael Moore

You

Prey

" I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax. "

" I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000. "

Michael Moore

Him

Office

" I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong. "

" No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison. "

" 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. "

" I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at. "

Michael Moore

Telephone

Saying

" Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times. "

Michael Moore

Liberal

Artists

" Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news. "

Michael Moore

Majority

News

" My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year. "