Michael Moore Quotes

There's Nothing Pure About Capitalism.

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 Not Democracy In The Workplace. I Mean, Through Most Of Our Daily Lives, The Idea Of Democracy Is Fairly Nonexistent. And I Think Things Work Better When The People Who Have To Work With Whatever It Is We're Working With Have A Say In How It's Working.

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.

All Of Our Political Parties Are Bought And Paid For By Corporate America, Wall Street, And The Wealthy Interests. The Republican Party More So, But The Democrats Take Their Share Of The Loot, Too.

Ask Anyone On Social Security If Their Check Comes On Time Every Month. Like Clockwork. And It Comes Through The So-called Dilapidated U.s. Mail. My Dad's Check Literally Will Come On The Same Day Every Month. The Government Has Been Quite Good And Efficient At Creating A Number Of Systems.

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.

Back In The Late '90s, I Put Together A Humorous Newsmagazine Program Called 'the Awful Truth' For Bravo. We Helped One Guy Get An Organ Transplant Whose Insurance Company Had Refused To Pay. I Thought, If We Could Save A Guy's Life In A 10-minute Segment On Cable, What Could We Do If We Devoted A Whole Movie To A Whole Bunch Of People?

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.

Every Night I Watch The Nightly News. It's Funded By The Pharmaceutical Companies. Virtually Every Ad Is A Drug Ad. They Get Their Say Every Night On The Nightly News Through Advertising.

Everybody Gets Sick; Everybody Has Had A Problem With Insurance Or The Prescription Drugs They're Supposed To Be Taking Or An Elderly Parent Who Needs Care.

For My Very First Movie, 'roger And Me,' I Made It As Part Of My Deal With Warner Brothers That The Four People That Were Evicted In That Film, That Warner Brothers Would House - Would Pay Their Mortgage Or Their Rent For The Next Two Years To Give Them A Chance To Get On Their Feet.