Top 200 Michael Moore Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

— Michael Moore

104. “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

105. “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

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

— Michael Moore

107. “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

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

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

110. “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

111. “Politicians never keep all their promises.”

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

114. “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

115. “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

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

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

119. “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

120. “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

121. “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

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

— Michael Moore

123. “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

124. “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

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

— Michael Moore

126. “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

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

— Michael Moore

128. “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

129. “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

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

— Michael Moore

131. “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

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

— Michael Moore

133. “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

134. “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

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

— Michael Moore

136. “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

137. “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

138. “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

139. “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.”

— Michael Moore

140. “I don’t want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.”

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

143. “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

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

— Michael Moore

145. “This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.”

— Michael Moore

146. “Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.”

— Michael Moore

147. “Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.”

— Michael Moore

148. “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

149. “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

150. “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