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" I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality. "

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" Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks - most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 - now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined. "

" I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.' "

" Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news. "

" Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning. "

" If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself? "

" A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me. "

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

" Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody. "

" What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist. "

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

" People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education. "

" But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time. "

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

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

" When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained. "

" 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. "

" No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison. "

" We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary. "

" I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what's going on and to try to fix things that you see that aren't right. I believed that as a young person, and I believe that today. "

" Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things. "

" 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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" I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy? "

" What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what's good for General Motors is good for the country. So, their attitude was, 'We'll build it and you buy it. We'll tell you what to buy. You just buy it.' "

" 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. "

" When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies. "

" The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity. "

" All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too. "

" The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don't pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor's appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don't make any money. "