Michael Moore Quotes

There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We've Been Told.

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

I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

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.

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

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

I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy.

Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.

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.

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

No one is entertained by economics.

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business.

It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.

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.

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

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