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" 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. "

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" 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 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. "

" If you're in a diabetic or prediabetic state, it's good to have medication to go on for a period of time. But simply by making the changes - get your sleep, 35 grams of fiber and a half-hour walk - your cholesterol will come down, your sugar will come down, and your blood pressure will come down. Only the minority of people can't control it. "

" Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system. "

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

" 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! "

" Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego. "

" There's nothing pure about capitalism. "

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

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

" I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place. "

" Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising. "

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

" The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda. "

" There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made. "

" Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power. "

" One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class. "

" My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying. "

" It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Before there were unions, there was no middle class. "

" Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century; we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code. "

" A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us. "

" I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle. "

" I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. "

" 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. "

" I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference. "

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" 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. "