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" 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

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" Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe. "

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" I don't want to be pigeonholed into the guy who's against everything. "

" 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. "

" There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex. "

" I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes. "

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" 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. "

" No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good? "

" All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst. "

" I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work. "

" 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. "

" Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning. "

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" Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods? "

" I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there? "

" I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained. "

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

" I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia. "

" You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't. "

" There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters. "

" Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension. "

" The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction. "

" There's nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I'm not against any of these things. It's about how you make that money, and then what you do with it. "

" The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda. "

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

" I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you. "

" No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison. "