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" No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison. "
Michael Moore
Virtual
Real World
Prison
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" I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested. "
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Boy
Good
Good Student
" 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
" Politicians never keep all their promises. "
Michael Moore
Politicians
Keep
Never
" You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier. "
Michael Moore
Me
Flaws
People
" 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
" 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. "
Michael Moore
News
Night
Watch
" I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.' "
Michael Moore
They Say
Change
People
" I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person. "
Michael Moore
Consumer
Person
Up
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Country
War
Tell
" I watch way too much C-SPAN. "
Michael Moore
Watch
Much
Too
" Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year. "
Michael Moore
America
Year
Worth
" Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down. "
Michael Moore
History
Backing
Away
" Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me. "
Michael Moore
Made
Time
Me
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Family
Good
Class
" We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers. "
Michael Moore
Health
Care
Canada
" I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free. "
Michael Moore
First
Remember
Time
" Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives. "
Michael Moore
Rest
Going
Our
" I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me. "
Michael Moore
Eagle
Me
Scout
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Think
World
Suffering
" I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that. "
Michael Moore
Love
Believe
Good
" If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders. "
Michael Moore
Reduce
You
Guns
" If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie. "
Michael Moore
Health
Capitalism
Democracy
" 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
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Face
You
Truth
" If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck. "
Michael Moore
Government
Saying
Say
" Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care. "
Michael Moore
Problem
Care
Insurance
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Crazy People
Never
Been
" One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class. "
Michael Moore
You
Want
Class
" I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong. "
Michael Moore
Who
Going
Never
" My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year. "
Michael Moore
Made
Mom
Year