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

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

" A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep. "

" Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out. "

" 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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" 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'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?' "

" 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. "

" One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business. "

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

" There's not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things work better when the people who have to work with whatever it is we're working with have a say in how it's working. "

" I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union. "

" I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks. "

" The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea. "

" I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong. "

" Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11. "

" The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained. "

" It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun. "

" 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. "