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Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.

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Michael Moore
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 23
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You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.
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I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.
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I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six.
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I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.
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Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.
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One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you.
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I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.
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A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.
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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.
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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?
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