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" 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. "

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" Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way. "

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" There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.' "

" If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble. "

" I get called 'controversial' all the time. "

" No one is entertained by economics. "

Michael Moore

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" The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars, they would have been arrested - or worse. "

" I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do. "

" 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. "

" Diets are a scam. "

Michael Moore

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

" I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place. "

" 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. "

" I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what's going on and to try to fix things that you see that aren't right. I believed that as a young person, and I believe that today. "

" I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained. "

" Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising. "

" We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years. "

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" I think movies are too long. "

" New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live. "

" 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 turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country. "

" I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong. "

" 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. "

" No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison. "

" Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever. "

" I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information. "

" 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. "