Michael Moore Quotes - Page 12

I'm very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy.

Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.

Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea.

I've made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren't enough hours in the day to respond to either the well-financed corporate hacks or the lowly stalkers who seek to libel me or make a buck off the fact that I'm a well-known person.

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.'

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 just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they're not doing it to make a profit off my labor. You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.

It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.

So is there a difference between Democrats and Republicans? Sure. The Democrats say one thing ("Save the planet!") and then do another--quietly holding hands behind the scenes with the bastards who make this world a dirtier, meaner place. The Republicans just come right out and give the bastards a corner office in the West Wing. That's the difference.

My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.

Today just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.

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

I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.

I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song.

Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns!

The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes -- and 50 other corporations -- that's the real scandal.

If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one.

I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is for wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle or on a desert island. You are not stranded. You own the store....You deserve better.

By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.