I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't want to be pigeonholed into the guy who's against everything.

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

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

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

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

Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.

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

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled.

There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.

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

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

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

There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

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

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

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

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.

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

It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

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

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

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

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

You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.

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

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

'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

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

I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.

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

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

This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.

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