Quotes from Michael Moore

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union.

If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the people who have their money in the credit union.

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

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.

Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.

The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.

I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.

There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'

Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.

Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president.

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.

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

All art is about appealing to emotion.

You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.

The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about being mugged or home invaded, what's the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street - or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor?

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for 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.

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

I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.

One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business.

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