Michael Moore Quotes

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

Politicians never keep all their promises.

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

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

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

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection.

Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11.

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

Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

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

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

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

We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.

If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself?

There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.

If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

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

This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.

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

There's nothing pure about capitalism.

The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.

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

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

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

Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns!

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.

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

I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.

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

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

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

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

My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.

I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

I think people should start to practice the words 'President Romney.'

We are not documentarians, we are filmmakers.

It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.

The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes -- and 50 other corporations -- that's the real scandal.

I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.

How can there be inaccuracy in comedy?

15 of the 19 [September 11th] hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.

Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.

I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy