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" No one is entertained by economics. "

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" Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. "

" If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society. "

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" 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. "

" As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices. "

" I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic. "

" I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another? "

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

" I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle. "

" I like America to some extent. "

" Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan. "

" Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me. "

" 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. "

" The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about being mugged or home invaded, what's the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street - or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years. "

" I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home! "

" I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Documentaries are a form of journalism. "

" In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public. "

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" Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power. "

" I think if people who are attacking me or against me, if they would just watch one of my films, they would - they may not agree with me politically on all the things I'm saying. But they will know at the end of the film that I love this country and that I have a heart. And they'll have a good laugh throughout the film. "