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" Documentaries are a form of journalism. "

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" I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually. "

" Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. "

" 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. "

" For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well. "

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

" One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you. "

" I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free. "

" Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test. "

" No one is entertained by economics. "

" 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. "

" Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year. "

" 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. "

" Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried. "

" 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. "

" I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work. "

" 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. "

" My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection. "

" I did not like 'The Hurt Locker.' It's a lazy way to make a movie, frankly. I could put you on the edge of your seat quite easily, and have you feel the tension for 2 hours, if every other scene practically is, 'Should we cut the red wire or the green wire?' "

" If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty. "

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

" There's nothing pure about capitalism. "

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

" Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit. "

" We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it. "

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

" My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line. "

" I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married. "