Top 200 Michael Moore Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws.”

— Michael Moore

152. “Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people – get them charging things.”

— Michael Moore

153. “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

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

— Michael Moore

155. “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

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

— Michael Moore

157. “A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.”

— Michael Moore

158. “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

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

— Michael Moore

160. “Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It’s more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind.”

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

162. “If you’re white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself?”

— Michael Moore

163. “When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that’s considered a good thing.”

— Michael Moore

164. “All art is about appealing to emotion.”

— Michael Moore

165. “I like America to some extent.”

— Michael Moore

166. “The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not ‘insurgents’ or ‘terrorists’ or ‘The Enemy.’ They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow – and they will win.”

— Michael Moore

167. “There’s been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There’s actually more films made attacking me than films I’ve made.”

— Michael Moore

168. “I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.”

— Michael Moore

169. “Every night I watch the nightly news. It’s funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising.”

— Michael Moore

170. “I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.”

— Michael Moore

171. “As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it’s not good to limit the number of voices.”

— Michael Moore

172. “There’s no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.”

— Michael Moore

173. “I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.”

— Michael Moore

174. “I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.”

— Michael Moore

175. “Television has its own award. It’s called the Emmy. It’s a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don’t see movies like ‘The King’s Speech’ win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system.”

— Michael Moore

176. “I don’t believe that the Bush Administration had something to do with September 11th. I do believe that there were a lot of warning signals, but I don’t think they were ignored on purpose – Bush just wanted to go to the ranch for a month.”

— Michael Moore

177. “Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don’t even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.”

— Michael Moore

178. “Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They’re not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.”

— Michael Moore

179. “New York City has become a place where it’s not easy for the working class to even live.”

— Michael Moore

180. “I’m very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies.”

— Michael Moore

181. “I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?”

— Michael Moore

182. “How can there be inaccuracy in comedy?”

— Michael Moore

183. “I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.”

— Michael Moore

184. “My film about Bush didn’t prevent his reelection.”

— Michael Moore

185. “Sometimes it’s important to vote – you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.”

— Michael Moore

186. “We are not documentarians, we are filmmakers.”

— Michael Moore

187. “If anything, I don’t have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.”

— Michael Moore

188. “The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman’s competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.”

— Michael Moore

189. “I’m caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.”

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

191. “I’m from the Midwest, and guys like me don’t go on diets. We don’t do well on spinning classes.”

— Michael Moore

192. “I’ll tell you who doesn’t have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.”

— Michael Moore

193. “The left, liberals, believe that if we just have more gun control laws, all the problems are going to go away. Well, I don’t think so. I don’t think so. I think – yes, it will, it will be reduced. There’s no question about that.”

— Michael Moore

194. “If we don’t participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.”

— Michael Moore

195. “There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word ‘homosexual.’”

— Michael Moore

196. “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.”

— Michael Moore

197. “I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married.”

— Michael Moore

198. “I’d feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.”

— Michael Moore

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

— Michael Moore

200. “I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.”

— Michael Moore