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" Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11. "
Michael Moore
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" We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things. "
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" Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House. "
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White
You
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" I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world. "
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" When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing. "
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Good
Class
" All art is about appealing to emotion. "
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Appealing
Art
About
" Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. "
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Spectator
Democracy
Event
" 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. "
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Water
Women
Job
" For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet. "
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Me
Chance
Film
" Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power. "
Michael Moore
Great
Slayer
Power
" 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
" I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you. "
Michael Moore
Troops
Neither
Support
" We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary. "
Michael Moore
Need
Documentary
Supporters
" I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at. "
Michael Moore
Email
Telephone
Saying
" I don't believe that the Bush Administration had something to do with September 11th. I do believe that there were a lot of warning signals, but I don't think they were ignored on purpose - Bush just wanted to go to the ranch for a month. "
Michael Moore
Think
Believe
Month
" 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
" In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates. "
Michael Moore
Ticket
Vote
You
" One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class. "
Michael Moore
You
Want
Class
" This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas. "
Michael Moore
White
Canada
Book
" I don't talk in sound bites. "
Michael Moore
Sound Bites
Talk
Bites
" 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
" 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 movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home! "
Michael Moore
People
Movie Theater
Home
" Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down. "
Michael Moore
History
Backing
Away
" All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. "
Michael Moore
Go
You
Prey
" If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty. "
Michael Moore
People
Poverty
Security
" I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000. "
Michael Moore
He
Him
Office
" Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system. "
Michael Moore
King
Speech
Award
" 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
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Like
" There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made. "
Michael Moore
Me
More
Made
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Language
Place
Speak