Quotes from Michael Moore

I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst.

I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.

When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.

Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

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.

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.

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

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.

Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

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

We live in a time when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president… a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons…. We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

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.