Quotes from Michael Moore

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

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives.

I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.

I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.

I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000.

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.

How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.

If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that's unnerving. You don't want to think it's as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It's easier to demonize or separate them off from 'us.'

Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.

We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.

We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.

How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three of them would end up precisely on their targets?

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

I think if people who are attacking me or against me, if they would just watch one of my films, they would - they may not agree with me politically on all the things I'm saying. But they will know at the end of the film that I love this country and that I have a heart. And they'll have a good laugh throughout the film.

In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.