Top 200 Michael Moore Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Nobody was talking about healthcare until ‘Sicko’ came out.”

— Michael Moore

52. “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.”

— Michael Moore

53. “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.”

— Michael Moore

54. “By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world’s media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.”

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

56. “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.”

— Michael Moore

57. “The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.”

— Michael Moore

58. “I don’t support the troops, America, and neither do you.”

— Michael Moore

59. “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.”

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

61. “The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they’re the people that control this economy.”

— Michael Moore

62. “Somehow, I don’t think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.”

— Michael Moore

63. “A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.”

— Michael Moore

64. “How about that McDonald’s two blocks from Ground Zero? That’s killed more people than the 19 hijackers.”

— Michael Moore

65. “I’m a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually.”

— Michael Moore

66. “White people scare the crap out of me.”

— Michael Moore

67. “There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.”

— Michael Moore

68. “The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.”

— Michael Moore

69. “I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy’s inaugural address memorized by the time I was six.”

— Michael Moore

70. “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

71. “A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.”

— Michael Moore

72. “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.”

— Michael Moore

73. “There is no terrorist threat. Yes, there have been horrific acts of terrorism and, yes, there will be acts of terrorism again. But that doesn’t mean that there’s some kind of massive terrorist threat.”

— Michael Moore

74. “All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.”

— Michael Moore

75. “We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world. Come on. We can do better than this.”

— Michael Moore

76. “Before there were unions, there was no middle class.”

— Michael Moore

77. “A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ because it’s simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.”

— Michael Moore

78. “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

79. “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.”

— Michael Moore

80. “I’ve read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn’t keep them in shackles, they didn’t whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It’s wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it’s wrong.”

— Michael Moore

81. “Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.”

— Michael Moore

82. “There’s not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things work better when the people who have to work with whatever it is we’re working with have a say in how it’s working.”

— Michael Moore

83. “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

84. “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

85. “If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.”

— Michael Moore

86. “North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don’t want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.”

— Michael Moore

87. “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.”

— Michael Moore

88. “There’s nothing pure about capitalism.”

— Michael Moore

89. “I – honestly, I don’t know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That’s just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.”

— Michael Moore

90. “Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.”

— Michael Moore

91. “The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.”

— Michael Moore

92. “There’s over a billion people on this planet that don’t have access to clean drinking water.”

— Michael Moore

93. “I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a ‘deserter.’ What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants.”

— Michael Moore

94. “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

95. “Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.”

— Michael Moore

96. “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

97. “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

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

— Michael Moore

99. “The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.”

— Michael Moore

100. “As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an “L”-the international sign for loser.”

— Michael Moore