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• 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.

  Michael Moore

  Office, Vote, Clinton

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• Politicians never keep all their promises.

  Michael Moore

  Promise, Politician

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

  Michael Moore

  Afghanistan, Knows, Invading

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

  Michael Moore

  Party, Tickets, Vote

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• How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Gun, Democracy

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

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Thinking, America

  Interview with Andrew Collins, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2002.

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• 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.

  Michael Moore

  Reality, Class, Criticism

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• The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.

  Michael Moore

  Trying, Cliffs, Rich

  "An Open Letter to President Obama" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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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.

  Michael Moore

  Morning, Smart, Dumb

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• I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. You know, they've had their budgets cut. They're paid nothing. Books are falling apart. The libraries are just like the ass end of everything, right?

  Michael Moore

  Book, Fall, Cutting

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• In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%).

  Michael Moore

  Country, Jobs, War

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• There is no terrorist threat. Yes, there have been horrific acts of terrorism and, yes, there will be acts of terrorism again. But that doesn't mean that there's some kind of massive terrorist threat.

  Michael Moore

  Stupid, Mean, Kind

  "Fahrenhype 9/11: Morris Vs. Moore" by Jim Emerson, www.rogerebert.com. August 2, 2004.

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• We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you. Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

  Michael Moore

  War, Men, Orange

  Speech at the 75th Annual Academy Awards as the Winner in the Best Documentary Feature category, www.imdb.com. March 23, 2003.

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• How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three of them would end up precisely on their targets?

  Michael Moore

  Guy, Three, Target

  Michael Moore (2004). “Dude, Where's My Country?”, ePenguin

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• As the country continues to dissect the recent natural disaster, we might want to start considering what about the disaster wasn't actually 'natural' at all. ... Human activity, the burning of fossil fuels, is causing global warming. Global warming is causing the oceans to warm. Warm oceans are steroids for storms.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Ocean, Storm

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• I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union.

  Michael Moore

  Age, Directors, Care

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• The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.

  Michael Moore

  Justice, Needs, Able

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• There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex.

  Michael Moore

  Cities, Detroit, Theater

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• If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the people who have their money in the credit union.

  Michael Moore

  People, Credit, Unions

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• If you're in a diabetic or prediabetic state, it's good to have medication to go on for a period of time. But simply by making the changes - get your sleep, 35 grams of fiber and a half-hour walk - your cholesterol will come down, your sugar will come down, and your blood pressure will come down. Only the minority of people can't control it.

  Michael Moore

  Sleep, Blood, People

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• If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that's unnerving. You don't want to think it's as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It's easier to demonize or separate them off from 'us.'

  Michael Moore

  Real, Thinking, Doors

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• This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

  Michael Moore

  Successful, Wings, Unions

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• I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Medicine, Documentaries

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• We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.

  Michael Moore

  Moving, Games, People

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• We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world. Come on. We can do better than this.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Health, World

  "Sicko Is Socko" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. May 19, 2007.

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