Top 200 Michael Moore Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

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. “Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.”

— Michael Moore

55. “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

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

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

62. “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

63. “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

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

— Michael Moore

65. “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

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

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

68. “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

69. “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

70. “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

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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

74. “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

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

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

77. “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

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

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

80. “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

81. “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

82. “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

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

— Michael Moore

84. “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

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

— Michael Moore

86. “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

87. “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

88. “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

89. “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

90. “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

91. “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

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

— Michael Moore

93. “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

94. “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

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

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

97. “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

98. “Most people don’t see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans.”

— Michael Moore

99. “I’ve always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.”

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore