Top 200 Michael Moore Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell.”

— Michael Moore

104. “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.”

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

106. “If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that’s unnerving. You don’t want to think it’s as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It’s easier to demonize or separate them off from ‘us.’”

— Michael Moore

107. “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

108. “If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.”

— Michael Moore

109. “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

110. “I don’t ‘support the troops’ or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here’s what I do support: I support them coming home. I support them being treated well.”

— Michael Moore

111. “I’ve always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn’t know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B.”

— Michael Moore

112. “I’m not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.”

— Michael Moore

113. “I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I’m a filmmaker.”

— Michael Moore

114. “I’m not a pundit. I’m not an analyst.”

— Michael Moore

115. “In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can’t vote for individual candidates.”

— Michael Moore

116. “I hate to say it, but killing is our way. We began America with genocide, then built it with slaves. The shootings will continue. It’s who we are.”

— Michael Moore

117. “I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.”

— Michael Moore

118. “I’m a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I’m constantly, ‘What is it about me and what I can do to be better?’”

— Michael Moore

119. “It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.”

— Michael Moore

120. “One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America – and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simply can’t turn their heads away from an injustice when they see one taking place.”

— Michael Moore

121. “Politicians never keep all their promises.”

— Michael Moore

122. “It’s all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.”

— Michael Moore

123. “The American media wants to pump you full of fear.”

— Michael Moore

124. “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.”

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

126. “We’re never gonna get rid of crazy people. They’ve been around for thousands of years – they’ll continue to be around; they’ll continue to do horrible things.”

— Michael Moore

127. “If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That’s not called capitalism, that’s called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.”

— Michael Moore

128. “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.”

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

131. “Today just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.”

— Michael Moore

132. “I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the ‘Flint Voice,’ and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.”

— Michael Moore

133. “You survive by having your fear compass calibrated correctly. Our compass is off now because we’re being told to be afraid of everything. The things that we’re frightened of, or told to be frightened of, are not necessarily the things that we need to fear.”

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

135. “My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.”

— Michael Moore

136. “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.”

— Michael Moore

137. “There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We’ve Been Told.”

— Michael Moore

138. “The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don’t make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don’t pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor’s appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don’t make any money.”

— Michael Moore

139. “For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.”

— Michael Moore

140. “For my very first movie, ‘Roger and Me,’ I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house – would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.”

— Michael Moore

141. “I was a good little boy and a good student. I’ve never been arrested.”

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

143. “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.”

— Michael Moore

144. “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.”

— Michael Moore

145. “A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we’re not getting enough sleep.”

— Michael Moore

146. “Bush’s presidency is revisionism-proof. We’re going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.”

— Michael Moore

147. “Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn’t a guaranteed pension.”

— Michael Moore

148. “All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst.”

— Michael Moore

149. “I’m interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can’t believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?”

— Michael Moore

150. “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.”

— Michael Moore