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" 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. "

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" I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. "

" A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me. "

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

" There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit. "

" Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people? "

" First of all, the American people are inundated with advertisement after advertisement of you buy, buy, buy. You've got to have the latest thing. The iPad 1 isn't any good anymore, you've got to have the iPad 2. The iPhone 4, now you've got to have iPhone 4S. Now you've got to have the 5b, now you've got to have the 6c. "

" 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. "

" You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense. "

" Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing. "

" Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives. "

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

" Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test. "

" Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news. "

" The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. "

" The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks. "

" I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what's good for General Motors is good for the country. So, their attitude was, 'We'll build it and you buy it. We'll tell you what to buy. You just buy it.' "

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

" Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times. "

" If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.' "

" I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that. "

" The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win. "