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

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" All art is about appealing to emotion. "

" All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst. "

" Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want. "

" Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. "

" I like America to some extent. "

" The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them. "

" 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.' "

" I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six. "

" I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time. "

" Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. "

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

" 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. "

" All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. "

" 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. "

" I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries. "

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

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

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

" 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? "

" I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick. "

" I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray. "

" If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck. "

" I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia. "

" White people scare the crap out of me. "

" Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House. "

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

" The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper. "