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Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care. (Michael Moore)
I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained. View quote
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Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans. View quote
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Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11. View quote
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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? View quote
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Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning. View quote
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New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live. View quote
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I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals. View quote
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A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me. View quote
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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.' View quote
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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. (Michael Moore)
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. View quote
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It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick. View quote
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Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times. View quote
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I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell. View quote
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The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper. View quote
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WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions. View quote
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The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them. View quote
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The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity. View quote
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The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda. View quote
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Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. (Michael Moore)
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. View quote
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Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy. View quote
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Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody. View quote
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All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst. View quote
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