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Stop this war! Shame on you Hobbits! Shame on you! This is a fictitious war! This Lord was not elected by the popular. (Michael Moore)
Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state. View quote
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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. View quote
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Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news. View quote
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I get called 'controversial' all the time. View quote
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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. View quote
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Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence. View quote
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Before there were unions, there was no middle class. View quote
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Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time. (Michael Moore)
I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what's going on and to try to fix things that you see that aren't right. I believed that as a young person, and I believe that today. View quote
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All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too. View quote
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We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it. View quote
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Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get. View quote
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Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars, they would have been arrested - or worse. View quote
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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. View quote
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Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican. View quote
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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. View quote
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Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address. View quote
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A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us. (Michael Moore)
'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture. View quote
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No one is entertained by economics. View quote
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Politicians never keep all their promises. View quote
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My employees, there's no deductible in your health care. No deductible, absolutely not. You get paid sick days, as many as you need, personal days. View quote
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