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" Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods? "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.' "

" I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them. "

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

" As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices. "

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

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

" Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out. "

" Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done. "

" Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans. "

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

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

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

" I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person. "

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" 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. "

" I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement. "

" 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 don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what I do support: I support them coming home. I support them being treated well. "

" Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president. "

" The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China. "

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