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

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

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

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

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

There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We've Been Told.

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

What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.

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

I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married.

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

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

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

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

Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one.

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

I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.

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

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

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

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.

I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.

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

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.

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

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

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

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.

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.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

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.

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

I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

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.

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

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

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

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

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

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.

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

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

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.

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