The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

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

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.

Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

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

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

I like America to some extent.

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

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.

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

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

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

White people scare the crap out of me.

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

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

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.

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

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.

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

All art is about appealing to emotion.

All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.

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

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

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

Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

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

Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people?

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

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

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

But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.

Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

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.

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.

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

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

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

Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down.

Diets are a scam.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

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

Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising.

Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.