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

You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.

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.'

My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection.

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.

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

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

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

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

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.

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

Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.

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

I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.

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