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" Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done. "

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" Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people? "

Michael Moore

Truth

Life

Together

" Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House. "

" One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business. "

Michael Moore

Need

Myself

" Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence. "

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

" 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. "

" In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates. "

" 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. "

" The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea. "

" I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell. "

Michael Moore

Want

Flying

" 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. "

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

Michael Moore

Majority

News

" If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one. "

" If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind. "

" How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it. "

" I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" I like America to some extent. "

" 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.' "

" I think movies are too long. "

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

" Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president. "

" Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want. "

" Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried. "