I watch way too much C-SPAN.
— Michael Moore
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.
If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself?
Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.
Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.
Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.
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.
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.
I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.
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.
I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.
I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.
If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.
I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.
Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.
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.
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.
No one is entertained by economics.
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.
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?'
There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled.
We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
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.
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.
And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.
I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.
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.
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.
I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.
When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.
A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.
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.
There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire. I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.
We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.
Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.
Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out.
Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state.
I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.
Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.
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.
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.
I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.
Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.
As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.
Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.
Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.
The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.
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?
White people scare the crap out of me.
