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" I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person. "

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" No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good? "

" I think if people who are attacking me or against me, if they would just watch one of my films, they would - they may not agree with me politically on all the things I'm saying. But they will know at the end of the film that I love this country and that I have a heart. And they'll have a good laugh throughout the film. "

" 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. "

" The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China. "

" I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker. "

" Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address. "

" I don't talk in sound bites. "

" I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that. "

" Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing. "

" There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them. "

" 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.' "

" I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell. "

" My employees, there's no deductible in your health care. No deductible, absolutely not. You get paid sick days, as many as you need, personal days. "

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

" 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. "

" We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. "

" 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.' "

" 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.' "

" The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills. "

" I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes. "

" 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. "

" We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years. "

" 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. "

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

" My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection. "

" 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. "

" Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English. "

" Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself. "

" All art is about appealing to emotion. "

" Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives. "