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

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" 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. "

" There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex. "

" Most Americans are very responsible. "

" 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. "

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

" The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home! "

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

" All art is about appealing to emotion. "

" A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me. "

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

" You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension. "

" Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. "

" I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested. "

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

" There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit. "

" The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy. "

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

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

" I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education. "

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

" I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there? "

" This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result. "

" 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. "

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

" It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions. "

" Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people? "