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" The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them. "

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" We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things. "

" Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care. "

" 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. "

" Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence. "

" If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty. "

" You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier. "

" You know, an opinion can be right or wrong. "

" I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference. "

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" I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place. "

" I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at. "

" 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. "

" I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married. "

" I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker. "

" I don't believe that the Bush Administration had something to do with September 11th. I do believe that there were a lot of warning signals, but I don't think they were ignored on purpose - Bush just wanted to go to the ranch for a month. "

" New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live. "

" Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. "

" Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan. "

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

" Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things. "

" All art is about appealing to emotion. "

" I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in. "

" 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. "

" Politicians never keep all their promises. "

" It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions. "

" 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. "

" I'm very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies. "

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

" I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America. "

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

" What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist. "