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

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" You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. "

" 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. "

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

" I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B. "

" I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do. "

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

" 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. "

" If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that's unnerving. You don't want to think it's as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It's easier to demonize or separate them off from 'us.' "

" There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters. "

" 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. "

" As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender. "

" Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get. "

" The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing. "

" 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?' "

" Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down. "

" I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change. "

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

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

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

" Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care. "

" My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line. "

" The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction. "

" Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way. "

" 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. "

" This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us. "

" I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married. "

" Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times. "