Top 200 Michael Moore Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “I think people should start to practice the words ‘President Romney.’”

— Michael Moore

202. “I assume everything I’m saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.”

— Michael Moore

203. “I’m used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.”

— Michael Moore

204. “There’s nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I’m not against any of these things. It’s about how you make that money, and then what you do with it.”

— Michael Moore

205. “The ‘fiscal cliff’ is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.”

— Michael Moore

206. “Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.”

— Michael Moore

207. “Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.”

— Michael Moore

208. “WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions.”

— Michael Moore

209. “One day there’ll be no need for me. I’m actually hoping to put myself out of business.”

— Michael Moore

210. “Republicans are relentless and they’re smart, too – they’re not all dumb – and on Election Day, they’ll be up at five in the morning.”

— Michael Moore

211. “A lot of people on Capitol Hill don’t want to talk to me.”

— Michael Moore

212. “I think I’m in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.”

— Michael Moore

213. “Hope for the best is what we do, right from the moment we’re born.”

— Michael Moore

214. “If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, ‘That’s not really what we mean when we say bear arms.’”

— Michael Moore

215. “I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy.”

— Michael Moore

216. “A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.”

— Michael Moore

217. “There’s only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the – it is in the General Motors headquarters complex.”

— Michael Moore

218. “Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven’t been shown or were buried.”

— Michael Moore

219. “I’m not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.”

— Michael Moore

220. “Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks – most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 – now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined.”

— Michael Moore

221. “My employees, there’s no deductible in your health care. No deductible, absolutely not. You get paid sick days, as many as you need, personal days.”

— Michael Moore

222. “I’ve never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.”

— Michael Moore

223. “I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don’t like to acknowledge that reality.”

— Michael Moore

224. “When I make a film, I’m not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I’d run for office.”

— Michael Moore

225. “I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.”

— Michael Moore

226. “Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.”

— Michael Moore

227. “I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what’s going on and to try to fix things that you see that aren’t right. I believed that as a young person, and I believe that today.”

— Michael Moore

228. “We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.”

— Michael Moore

229. “It’s a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It’s certainly not fun.”

— Michael Moore

230. “I don’t like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.”

— Michael Moore

231. “The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.”

— Michael Moore

232. “Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement – occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly – if not daily – nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.”

— Michael Moore

233. “I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn’t vote for him in ’96. I didn’t vote for Gore in 2000.”

— Michael Moore

234. “I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.”

— Michael Moore

235. “I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they’re still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.”

— Michael Moore

236. “But I’m not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who’s followed me, I’m the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.”

— Michael Moore

237. “Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you’ll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.”

— Michael Moore

238. “Back in the ’80s and ’90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.”

— Michael Moore

239. “I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another?”

— Michael Moore

240. “I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early ’70s. I ran for the Board of Education.”

— Michael Moore

241. “Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?”

— Michael Moore