The worst way to defend our freedom is to let our leaders start taking away our freedoms! It is exactly during times like these [a national crisis] that we need more freedom of speech, a strong and critical press, and a citizenry that is not afraid to stand up and say that the emperor has no clothes.
Michael MooreIn some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.
Michael MooreWe as Americans believe itโs OK to kill people. We believe itโs OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think itโs OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and heโs in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty, we sanction it.
Michael MooreAsk anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.
Michael MooreToday, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.
Michael Moore