Quotes By Michael Moore

I like America to some extent.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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 say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.

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

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

There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives.

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.

Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

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?

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.

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

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

White people scare the crap out of me.

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 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.

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

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

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.