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" You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Most Americans are very responsible. "

" Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House. "

" As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender. "

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

" Diets are a scam. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open. "

" It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it. "

" When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office. "

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

" When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies. "

" 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 watch way too much C-SPAN. "

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

" 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another? "

" 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 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? "

" Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever. "

" My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year. "

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

" I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax. "