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" We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game. "

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" Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as much money as possible, any way possible within 'the law.' "

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" Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six. "

Michael Moore

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

Michael Moore

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" All art is about appealing to emotion. "

" Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street. "

" There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Michael Moore

You

Time

" Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system. "

" Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11. "

" The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea. "

" I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world. "

" 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. "

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

" Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year. "

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

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

" If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. "

Michael Moore

You

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" 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. "