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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. "

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" The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction. "

" If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself? "

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" I tell everybody on the first day of making a movie that if anyone's here to further their career, they should leave. I'm gonna make the movie in such a way that we won't have a career when this movie comes out. Because the people who hold the moneybags are not going to want to share any of that money with us to make the next movie! "

" Politicians never keep all their promises. "

" People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education. "

" I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong. "

" I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.' "

" I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good? "

" 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. "

" If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck. "

" I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy. "

" Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe. "

" If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble. "

" 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture. "

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

" A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past. "

" Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies. "