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" Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried. "
Michael Moore
Paper
Job
Been
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" I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change. "
Michael Moore
Men
Say
Stupid
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Doctor
Health
Insurance
" For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet. "
Michael Moore
Me
Chance
Film
" 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
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Journalism
You
Work
" There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.' "
Michael Moore
Four
Word
Where
" This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result. "
Michael Moore
Problem
Successful
Result
" Documentaries are a form of journalism. "
Michael Moore
Documentaries
Form
Journalism
" There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made. "
Michael Moore
Me
More
Made
" When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies. "
Michael Moore
War
Women
People
" There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives. "
Michael Moore
Aspects
Politics
Our
" I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually. "
Michael Moore
I Am
Religious
Yes
" I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education. "
Michael Moore
Early
Back
Education
" 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. "
Michael Moore
Kind
Your
Voting
" 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? "
Michael Moore
Gift
Live
Life
" I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information. "
Michael Moore
Democracy
Information
People
" Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing. "
Michael Moore
Enemy
News
Opinion
" I watch way too much C-SPAN. "
Michael Moore
Watch
Much
Too
" 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. "
Michael Moore
You
Important
Know
" Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac. "
Michael Moore
Rest
Pink
Work
" We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game. "
Michael Moore
Off
People
Reward
" Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address. "
Michael Moore
Government
Most
Must
" 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture. "
Michael Moore
Will
Torture
Thirty
" Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. "
Michael Moore
Regulate
Evil
Cannot
" 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
Me
Want
Flying
" They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't. "
Michael Moore
Movies
Would
Said
" All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. "
Michael Moore
Go
You
Prey
" First of all, the American people are inundated with advertisement after advertisement of you buy, buy, buy. You've got to have the latest thing. The iPad 1 isn't any good anymore, you've got to have the iPad 2. The iPhone 4, now you've got to have iPhone 4S. Now you've got to have the 5b, now you've got to have the 6c. "
Michael Moore
You
People
Now
" 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
" I don't talk in sound bites. "
Michael Moore
Sound Bites
Talk
Bites