Michael Moore Quotes

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.

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

We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.

You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.

Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.

How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three of them would end up precisely on their targets?

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

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

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.

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

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.

I get called 'controversial' all the time.

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.

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

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

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

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

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

I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

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

I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy.

I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst.

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

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

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

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

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

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.

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.

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.

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

I like America to some extent.

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

I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

All art is about appealing to emotion.

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

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

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

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

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

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.

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

No one is entertained by economics.

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

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

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