Top 100 Michael Moore Quotes
#1. The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.
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#2. Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.
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#3. How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers.
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#4. Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president.
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#5. The left, liberals, believe that if we just have more gun control laws, all the problems are going to go away. Well, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think - yes, it will, it will be reduced. There's no question about that.
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#7. Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.
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#8. Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich ... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.
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#9. Instead of the Government spending $400,000 on immunisation, we may get far better health outcomes if we spend $100,000 in some other way, on nutrition for example ... When you have an expenditure on getting your community healthier, then the resistance to many childhood diseases is stronger.
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#10. It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.
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#11. If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the people who have their money in the credit union.
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#12. The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.
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#14. What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things ... Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.
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#15. I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.
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#16. I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'
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#17. Those who had the remaining jobs would have to buy the cheapest stuff possible with their drastically reduced wages, and in order for the manufacturers to keep that stuff cheap, it would have to be made by fifteen-year-olds in China.
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#18. I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.
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#19. I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.
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#20. I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.
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#21. I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.
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#22. My employees, there's no deductible in your health care. No deductible, absolutely not. You get paid sick days, as many as you need, personal days.
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#23. A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.
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#24. If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.
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#25. 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.
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#27. The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!
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#28. My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.
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#29. Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.
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#30. As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.
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#31. We should be licensing everybody with a gun. I have to have a license for my dog. I have to have a license for my car. If you're going to do my hair later you have to have a license ... We don't require a license to own a firearm?
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#32. I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.
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#33. It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.
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#34. Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down.
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#35. 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.
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#36. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%).
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#37. People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.
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#38. It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.
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#39. In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.
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#40. I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.
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#41. There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives.
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#42. 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.'
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#43. 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.
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#44. Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.
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#45. 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.
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#47. Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars, they would have been arrested - or worse.
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#48. My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.
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#50. As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser.
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#51. 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.
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#52. 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.
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#53. We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.
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#54. The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.
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#55. I've made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren't enough hours in the day to respond to either the well-financed corporate hacks or the lowly stalkers who seek to libel me or make a buck off the fact that I'm a well-known person.
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#56. There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We've Been Told.
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#57. A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.
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#58. I don't want to be pigeonholed into the guy who's against everything.
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#59. 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.
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#60. There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'
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#61. Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for.
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#62. I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.
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#63. I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.
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#64. The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.
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#65. The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.
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#66. WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions.
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#68. The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.
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#69. Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.
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#70. 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.
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#71. I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.
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#72. We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers.
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#73. I hate to say it, but killing is our way. We began America with genocide, then built it with slaves. The shootings will continue. It's who we are.
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#74. 'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.
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#75. 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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#76. A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.
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#77. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.
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#78. Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!
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#79. 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?
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#80. 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.
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#81. 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.
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#82. 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.
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#84. I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married.
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#85. I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity.
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#86. Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.
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#88. The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choosing right over wrong, ethic over convenience, and truth over popularity ... these are choices that measure your life. Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.
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#91. The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don't pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor's appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don't make any money.
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#92. Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.
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#93. When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.
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#94. [Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.
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#96. If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.'
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#97. I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.
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#98. I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.
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#99. 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.
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#100. I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.
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