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

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" And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S. "

" If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that's unnerving. You don't want to think it's as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It's easier to demonize or separate them off from 'us.' "

" Documentaries are a form of journalism. "

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

" I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code. "

" Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. "

" One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you. "

" I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist. "

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

" All art is about appealing to emotion. "

" 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. "

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

" I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000. "

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

" We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. "

" I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals. "

" WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions. "

" 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. "

" Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems. "

" I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions. "

" How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire. I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do. "

" For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet. "

" I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me. "

" My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection. "

" 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'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? "