Quotes By Michael Moore

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.

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

White people scare the crap out of me.

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.

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.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

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

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 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.

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 think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

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.

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.

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.

Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

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.

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

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

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

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

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

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.

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.