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" 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? "
Michael Moore
Gift
Live
Life
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" I like America to some extent. "
Michael Moore
Extent
America
Some
" All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. "
Michael Moore
Go
You
Prey
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Security
Government
Good
" Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind. "
Michael Moore
Journalism
You
Work
" No one is entertained by economics. "
Michael Moore
Economics
Entertained
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Death
Think
Country
" If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society. "
Michael Moore
You
Believe
Equality
" I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually. "
Michael Moore
I Am
Religious
Yes
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Best
Done
Few
" First of all, the American people are inundated with advertisement after advertisement of you buy, buy, buy. You've got to have the latest thing. The iPad 1 isn't any good anymore, you've got to have the iPad 2. The iPhone 4, now you've got to have iPhone 4S. Now you've got to have the 5b, now you've got to have the 6c. "
Michael Moore
You
People
Now
" You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful. "
Michael Moore
Gift
Spiritual
Believe
" Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried. "
Michael Moore
Paper
Job
Been
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Health
Care
Canada
" Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. "
Michael Moore
Regulate
Evil
Cannot
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Saying
Good
Think
" Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out. "
Michael Moore
Out
Until
Talking
" I watch way too much C-SPAN. "
Michael Moore
Watch
Much
Too
" I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time. "
Michael Moore
Long
Long Time
Time
" In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public. "
Michael Moore
Say
Words
America
" 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. "
Michael Moore
First
Remember
Time
" I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia. "
Michael Moore
Ask
Conscience
Everything
" 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. "
Michael Moore
See
Love
Good
" Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as much money as possible, any way possible within 'the law.' "
Michael Moore
Law
Responsibility
Money
" There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water. "
Michael Moore
Clean
People
Water
" Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. "
Michael Moore
You
Up
Against
" And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S. "
Michael Moore
You
Enough
Political
" They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't. "
Michael Moore
Movies
Would
Said
" It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions. "
Michael Moore
High School
Education
School
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Kind
Your
Voting
" Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down. "
Michael Moore
History
Backing
Away