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

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

" No one is entertained by economics. "

" I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what I do support: I support them coming home. I support them being treated well. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive. "

" My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line. "

" I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America. "

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

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

" The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws. "

" Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind. "

" 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! "

" Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done. "

" You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier. "

" I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that. "

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

" In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates. "

" Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen. "

" There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm sure most people think women should be paid the same as men if they're doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we made that list, we actually are in agreement on more things. "

" Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself. "

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

" I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person. "

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