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You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot you in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders are worse.

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

I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.

I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

There's no such thing as 'enough'!

Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.

By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.

I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

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

Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns!

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

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.

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.

Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.

A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep.

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things ... Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

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

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst.

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

I watch way too much C-SPAN.

If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

Most Americans are very responsible.

Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business.

Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address.

One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class.

As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser.

There's nothing pure about capitalism.

Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray.

I'm very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies.

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

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

The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11.

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?

Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

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

The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!

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

Hope for the best is what we do, right from the moment we're born.

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

White people scare the crap out of me.

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

The worst thing to tell a free people in a country that's still mostly free is that they are not allowed to read something.

'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.

Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.

I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

Jesus told us that we would be judged by how we treat the least among us.

I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.

[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans.

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.

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

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

How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers.

I think movies are too long.

There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.

The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.

I think people should start to practice the words 'President Romney.'

All art is about appealing to emotion.

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

We are not documentarians, we are filmmakers.

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

Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out.

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.

There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

Politicians never keep all their promises.

I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.

If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself?

All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst.

I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.

Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power.

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.

There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives.

I hate to say it, but killing is our way. We began America with genocide, then built it with slaves. The shootings will continue. It's who we are.

Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

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

I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

Today just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.

We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.