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" 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. "

Michael Moore

Support

Home

Democrats

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" I think movies are too long. "

" You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier. "

Michael Moore

Flaws

People

" 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 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? "

" The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about being mugged or home invaded, what's the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street - or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor? "

" 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. "

Michael Moore

Early

Time

" I get called 'controversial' all the time. "

" I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested. "

" Politicians never keep all their promises. "

" There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water. "

" You know, an opinion can be right or wrong. "

" 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. "

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

" We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. "

" The American media wants to pump you full of fear. "

" Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me. "

Michael Moore

Made

Time

" I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world. "

" I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in. "

Michael Moore

Work

Compromise

" I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me. "

Michael Moore

Eagle

Scout

" 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. "

" Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican. "

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

Michael Moore

Consumer

Person

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

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

" I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm sure most people think women should be paid the same as men if they're doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we made that list, we actually are in agreement on more things. "

" I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen. "

" For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet. "

Michael Moore

Chance

Film

" They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't. "

" 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. "

" 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. "