Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class. "

Related Quotes:

" The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Before there were unions, there was no middle class. "

" Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing. "

" For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well. "

" I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. "

" Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican. "

" I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy. "

" 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. "

" No one is entertained by economics. "

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

" All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too. "

" If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that's unnerving. You don't want to think it's as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It's easier to demonize or separate them off from 'us.' "

" They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't. "

" The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck. "

" My employees, there's no deductible in your health care. No deductible, absolutely not. You get paid sick days, as many as you need, personal days. "

" I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off. "

" 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. "

" Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out. "

" People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us. "

" Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down. "

" This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us. "

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

" I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity. "

" 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 think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America. "