Quotes by Michael Moore

About Michael Moore:

Michael Francis Moore is an American documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, author, journalist, actor, and left-wing political activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush and the War on Terror, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time and winner of the Palme d'Or. His film Bowling for Columbine (2002), which examines the causes of the Columbine High School massacre, won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. Both Bowling for Columbine and Sicko (2007), which examines health care in the United States, are among the top ten highest-grossing documentaries. In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, which documented his personal quest to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections. He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation, a satirical newsmagazine television series and The Awful Truth, a satirical show.
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Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.

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I don't believe that the Bush Administration had something to do with September 11th. I do believe that there were a lot of warning signals, but I don't think they were ignored on purpose - Bush just wanted to go to the ranch for a month.

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In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

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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.

Michael Moore

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

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

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Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

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

Michael Moore

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

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

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No one is entertained by economics.

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For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

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Documentaries are a form of journalism.

Michael Moore

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

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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.

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

Michael Moore

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

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All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst.

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The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.

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

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Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

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Author Bio

  • NameMichael Moore
  • DescriptionAmerican filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal activist
  • BornApril 23, 1954
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Television Presenter; Author; Journalist; Actor; Autobiographer
  • AwardsWriters Guild Of America Award; Emmy Award