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" Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news. "

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" 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. "

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

" The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction. "

" There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water. "

" The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that. "

" Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison. "

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

" What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist. "

" Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego. "

" You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense. "

" We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. "

" Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans. "

" I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code. "

" Most Americans are very responsible. "

" 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. "

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

" The left, liberals, believe that if we just have more gun control laws, all the problems are going to go away. Well, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think - yes, it will, it will be reduced. There's no question about that. "

" 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. "

" Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension. "

" The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don't pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor's appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don't make any money. "

" 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. "

" I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality. "

" I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong. "

" Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody. "

" You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful. "

" We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary. "

" Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods? "

" There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters. "

" You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. "