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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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" 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. "

" Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English. "

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

" I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.' "

" Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego. "

" There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.' "

" I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle. "

" All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. "

" You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. "

" 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. "

" One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business. "

" In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public. "

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

" I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries. "

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

" There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water. "

" 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. "

" We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years. "

" I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free. "

" I tell everybody on the first day of making a movie that if anyone's here to further their career, they should leave. I'm gonna make the movie in such a way that we won't have a career when this movie comes out. Because the people who hold the moneybags are not going to want to share any of that money with us to make the next movie! "

" North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons. "

" There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives. "

" I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually. "

" I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B. "

" Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address. "

" 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. "

" The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing. "

" I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality. "

" Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want. "

" 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. "