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" 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. "
Michael Moore
College
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" The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills. "
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" I don't talk in sound bites. "
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" There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit. "
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" Most Americans are very responsible. "
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" 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. "
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" I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker. "
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" It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country. "
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" I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist. "
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" 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. "
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" Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. "
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" I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do. "
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" I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually. "
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" I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you. "
Michael Moore
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Neither
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" You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense. "
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" There's nothing pure about capitalism. "
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Nothing
About
" I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax. "
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" Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives. "
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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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Done
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" I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?' "
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" It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick. "
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" 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture. "
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" It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions. "
Michael Moore
High School
Education
School
" 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. "
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King
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change. "
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" I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity. "
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" I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000. "
Michael Moore
He
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