Quotes from Michael Moore

I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free.

I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.

The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.

I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.

Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.

My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

I like America to some extent.

I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

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

You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don't pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor's appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don't make any money.

Politicians never keep all their promises.

I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually.

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.

I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.

We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.