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
The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.
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.
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.
Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.
I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.
I don't want to be pigeonholed into the guy who's against everything.
I tell everybody on the first day of making a movie that if anyone's here to further their career, they should leave. I'm gonna make the movie in such a way that we won't have a career when this movie comes out. Because the people who hold the moneybags are not going to want to share any of that money with us to make the next movie!
In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.
The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.
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.
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.
I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.
I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.
Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as much money as possible, any way possible within 'the law.'
I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.
New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.
The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.
Before there were unions, there was no middle class.
Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address.
You know, an opinion can be right or wrong.
Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power.
This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.
Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.
There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.
I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm sure most people think women should be paid the same as men if they're doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we made that list, we actually are in agreement on more things.
Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.
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.
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.
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.
I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.
A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.
As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.
I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union.
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.
WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions.
I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity.
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.
Politicians never keep all their promises.
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.
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.
It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.
I get called 'controversial' all the time.
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.
The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.
If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.
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.
You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
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.
L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.
