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" Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence. "
Michael Moore
Crime
Class
Violence
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" A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us. "
Michael Moore
Society
Daily
Greed
" Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out. "
Michael Moore
Out
Until
Talking
" People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us. "
Michael Moore
College
Us
You
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Society
Men
Love
" Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times. "
Michael Moore
More
Liberal
Artists
" The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea. "
Michael Moore
Dangerous
Great
Cinema
" 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
" The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda. "
Michael Moore
Liberal
Me
Name
" What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist. "
Michael Moore
Economic
New
Order
" There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit. "
Michael Moore
Private
Health
Insurance
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Respect
Movies
Weekend
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Detroit
City
Movie Theater
" I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what I do support: I support them coming home. I support them being treated well. "
Michael Moore
Support
Home
Democrats
" My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying. "
Michael Moore
Ideas
People
Thought
" I think movies are too long. "
Michael Moore
I Think
Long
Too
" The American media wants to pump you full of fear. "
Michael Moore
Wants
Full
Fear
" 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? "
Michael Moore
Truth
Life
Together
" There's not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things work better when the people who have to work with whatever it is we're working with have a say in how it's working. "
Michael Moore
Democracy
Think
People
" I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference. "
Michael Moore
Make A Difference
Realize
Country
" The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction. "
Michael Moore
Never
Distraction
Fooled
" 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. "
Michael Moore
You
American
Hard Work
" Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. "
Michael Moore
Power
You
America
" 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.' "
Michael Moore
Country
You
Good
" I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. "
Michael Moore
Rich
Camel
Believe
" Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. "
Michael Moore
You
Up
Against
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Parent
Best
Child
" 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. "
Michael Moore
God
Way
See
" I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax. "
Michael Moore
You
Responsibility
Personal
" You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense. "
Michael Moore
Self-Defense
Life
Human
" I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic. "
Michael Moore
Am
I Was Raised
Raised