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" 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. "
Michael Moore
Think
World
Suffering
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" As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I like America to some extent. "
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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? "
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Life
" Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. "
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" 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? "
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Home
" It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun. "
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Fun
" I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000. "
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Him
Office
" 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. "
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Country
Born
" If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie. "
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Capitalism
Democracy
" Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year. "
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America
Year
Worth
" Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried. "
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Paper
Job
Been
" 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. "
Michael Moore
King
Speech
Award
" 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. "
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Power
You
America
" You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. "
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Child
Slavery
Labor
" Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars, they would have been arrested - or worse. "
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War
Business
Company
" If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one. "
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Get
Job
Worry
" My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year. "
Michael Moore
Made
Mom
Year
" I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time. "
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Long
Long Time
Time
" I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested. "
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Boy
Good
Good Student
" 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. "
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Government
Good
" Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison. "
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Army
Medal
" When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office. "
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Doing
Film
Run
" I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married. "
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Right
Believe
Cannot
" 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. "
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You
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Hard Work
" Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac. "
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Pink
Work
" 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. "
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You
Age
Today
" North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons. "
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Great
Want
World
" If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.' "
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Think
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