Michael Moore Quotes

Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.

I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free.

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

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.

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.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

Today, 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.

I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

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.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

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

You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

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.

Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.

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

There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives.

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.

There's no such thing as enough.

Nothing seems crueler--or more ironic--than these upper crusters who never pay a dime for their high-priced shrinks or reflexology sessions to call those who just want that tumor removed from their uterus a bunch of commies. Well, the revolution is at hand and let's hope all those uninsured commies give the rich such a headache that a whole bottle of Advil won't be enough to take the pain way.

Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out.

White people scare the crap out of me.

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

Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns!

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

I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They 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. You know, they've had their budgets cut. They're paid nothing. Books are falling apart. The libraries are just like the ass end of everything, right?

Most Americans, in their heart, are liberal and progressive. It's just a small minority of people who hate, they hate, they exist in the politics of hate, they don't believe two consenting adults should have the right to be in love and share their lives together and be legally protected by the state.

If you're in a diabetic or prediabetic state, it's good to have medication to go on for a period of time. But simply by making the changes - get your sleep, 35 grams of fiber and a half-hour walk - your cholesterol will come down, your sugar will come down, and your blood pressure will come down. Only the minority of people can't control it.

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.

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.

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity.

Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address.

The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and it's not democratic. And it will fall just like communism fell. The richest 1 percent now own 50 percent of the wealth. It didn't use to be that way. The average CEO 20 years ago made 20 times as much as the average employee. Now they make 212 times as much.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

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

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.'

The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.

I don't believe that the Bush Administration had something to do with September 11th. I do believe that there were a lot of warning signals, but I don't think they were ignored on purpose - Bush just wanted to go to the ranch for a month.

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

I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem.

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.

Well, "The Washington post" three weeks ago had this investigation and they said that President Obama has now raised more money from Wall Street and the banks for this election cycle than all - than all eight Republicans combined. I don't want to say that, because if that's the truth, that Wall Street already has their man and his name is Barack Obama, then we've got a much bigger problem.

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

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

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.