Top 100 Quotes About Michael Moore
#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.
Michael Moore
#2. One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it.
Michael Moore
#3. It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.
Michael Moore
#4. I realized that this was the big secret of democracy
that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.
Michael Moore
#5. Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.
Michael Moore
#6. I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.
Michael Moore
#7. Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.
Michael Moore
#10. The American media wants to pump you full of fear.
Michael Moore
#11. How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers.
Michael Moore
#12. As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.
Michael Moore
#13. 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.
Michael Moore
#14. 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.
Michael Moore
#15. 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.
Michael Moore
#17. You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.
Michael Moore
#18. Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.
Michael Moore
#20. 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.
Michael Moore
#21. I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.
Michael Moore
#22. If someone did this Fahrenheit 9/11 to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, D.C., and the planes' destination of California - these were places that voted AGAINST Bush!
Michael Moore
#23. 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.
Michael Moore
#24. I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.
Rudy Giuliani
#25. 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.
Michael Moore
#26. One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America
and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simply can't turn their heads away from an injustice when they see one taking place.
Michael Moore
#27. 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.
Michael Moore
#28. 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.
Michael Moore
#29. The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.
Michael Moore
#30. 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.
Michael Moore
#31. Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.
Michael Moore
#33. I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.
Michael Moore
#34. I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.
Jason Reitman
#35. New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.
Michael Moore
#36. We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.
Michael Moore
#37. I'm kind of quoting Thurston [Moore] and Kim [Gordon] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the ones who said it to me.
Michael Stipe
#38. I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it had a kind of patina to it, like copper and bronze and so on. The color I used was a Benjamin Moore color called 2012. My then-young daughter started calling me 2012 - it was my nickname.
Michael Graves
#39. What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things ... Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.
Michael Moore
#40. I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what I do support: I support them coming home. I support them being treated well.
Michael Moore
#41. The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.
Michael Moore
#42. 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.
Michael Moore
#43. 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.'
Michael Moore
#44. You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
Michael Moore
#45. My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.
Michael Moore
#46. You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.
Michael Moore
#47. 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
Michael Moore
#49. Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system.
Michael Moore
#50. I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.
Michael Moore
#51. Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.
Michael Moore
#52. 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.
Michael Moore
#53. I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people ... as long as they're not doing it to make a profit off my labor - You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.
Michael Moore
#54. I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.
Michael Moore
#55. Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.
Michael Moore
#56. 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.
Michael Moore
#57. 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.
Michael Moore
#58. I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.
Michael Moore
#59. This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.
Michael Moore
#60. With a camera, a microphone, and sufficient cash, you, too, can craft your own version of the world and emblazon it with a premium of fear over facts. (Be warned though: Paranoid schizophrenia makes for compelling film, but it's no way of life.)
David T. Hardy
#61. I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.
Michael Moore
#62. There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
Michael Moore
#63. If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.
Michael Moore
#64. I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.
Michael Moore
#65. 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.
Michael Moore
#66. Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
Michael Moore
#67. For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.
Michael Moore
#68. Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.
Michael Moore
#69. A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.
Michael Moore
#70. If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.
Michael Moore
#71. 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.
Michael Moore
#73. Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as much money as possible, any way possible within 'the law.'
Michael Moore
#74. I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.
Michael Moore
#75. You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful.
Michael Moore
#76. Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes.
J. Michael Straczynski
#77. I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it.
Glenn Beck
#78. When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.
Michael Moore
#81. The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!
Michael Moore
#82. My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection.
Michael Moore
#83. The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.
Michael Moore
#84. The worst thing to tell a free people in a country that's still mostly free is that they are not allowed to read something.
Michael Moore
#85. No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.
Michael Moore
#86. These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control.
Michael Moore
#87. I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.
Michael Moore
#88. Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11.
Michael Moore
#89. If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one.
Michael Moore
#90. Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into submission? How about an explanation, Mr Moore?
Andrew Sullivan
#91. I think Michael Moore is an amazing man - an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably going to start saying, 'Don't associate with Cindy Sheehan.' People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country.
Cindy Sheehan
#92. L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.
Michael Moore
#93. I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union.
Michael Moore
#94. I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you.
Michael Moore
#95. There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.
Michael Moore
#96. The media, the corporations, the politicians ... have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it's come to the point where they don't need to give any reason at all.
Michael Moore
#97. They may rail at this life - from the hour I began it,
I've found it a life full of kindness and bliss;
And until they can show me some happier planet.
More social and bright, I'll content me with this.
Michael Moore
#98. But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.
Michael Moore
#99. One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class.
Michael Moore
#100. Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.
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