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" Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. "
Michael Moore
New York
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Earth
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" If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem. "
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Going
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" In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates. "
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" L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals. "
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" I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy? "
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" The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy. "
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" It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun. "
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Show
Work
Fun
" Documentaries are a form of journalism. "
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Documentaries
Form
Journalism
" My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying. "
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Ideas
People
Thought
" Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego. "
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" We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers. "
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" But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time. "
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You
Time
Me
" 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. "
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Book
Good
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" I watch way too much C-SPAN. "
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" All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. "
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" I like America to some extent. "
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America
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" The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China. "
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" Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed. "
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" Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks - most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 - now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined. "
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" 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. "
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Health
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" You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. "
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Slavery
Labor
" You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense. "
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Life
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" The American media wants to pump you full of fear. "
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