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" Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test. "
Michael Moore
Believe
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" 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. "
Michael Moore
Great
Want
World
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Back
Ideas
Money
" It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it. "
Michael Moore
Race
Country
Born
" Politicians never keep all their promises. "
Michael Moore
Politicians
Keep
Never
" Documentaries are a form of journalism. "
Michael Moore
Documentaries
Form
Journalism
" Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods? "
Michael Moore
Supposed
Again
Over
" The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. "
Michael Moore
War
Government
Rich
" As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender. "
Michael Moore
Love
Far
Birds
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Medicine
Humor
Serious
" You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. "
Michael Moore
Child
Slavery
Labor
" I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place. "
Michael Moore
World
Used
Place
" Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe. "
Michael Moore
Arms
Building
Up
" There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water. "
Michael Moore
Clean
People
Water
" I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity. "
Michael Moore
Car
More
Like
" I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that. "
Michael Moore
Own
Media
Everything
" I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off. "
Michael Moore
Feel
Bad
Off
" I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in. "
Michael Moore
Work
Compromise
Next
" I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm sure most people think women should be paid the same as men if they're doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we made that list, we actually are in agreement on more things. "
Michael Moore
Water
Women
Job
" The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps. "
Michael Moore
Global Warming
Greatest
Responsible
" Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century; we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code. "
Michael Moore
Democracy
Socialism
Live
" Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open. "
Michael Moore
Now
Street
Supreme Court
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Street
Political
America
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Much
Reality
Criticism
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Time
Results
Man
" We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary. "
Michael Moore
Need
Documentary
Supporters
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Line
My Life
Life
" I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement. "
Michael Moore
See
Love
Good
" I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue. "
Michael Moore
Hope
Easy
Stop
" Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. "
Michael Moore
You
Up
Against
" There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives. "
Michael Moore
Aspects
Politics
Our