Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they’re supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care. – Michael Moore
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. – Michael Moore
I’m interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can’t believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there? – Michael Moore
I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me. – Michael Moore
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. – Michael Moore
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. – Michael Moore
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. – Michael Moore
I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what’s going on and to try to fix things that you see that aren’t right. I believed that as a young person, and I believe that today. – Michael Moore
It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions. – Michael Moore
You do not have the right to take another human’s life, unless it’s in strict self-defense. – Michael Moore
Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks – most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 – now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined. – Michael Moore
The ‘fiscal cliff’ is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks. – Michael Moore
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. – Michael Moore
Back in the ’80s and ’90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan. – Michael Moore
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. – Michael Moore
Somehow, I don’t think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. – Michael Moore
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. – Michael Moore
Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven’t been shown or were buried. – Michael Moore
There’s only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the – it is in the General Motors headquarters complex. – Michael Moore
I think I’m in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America. – Michael Moore
And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it’s not used enough, at least not in the U.S. – Michael Moore
No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good? – Michael Moore
I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, ‘Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.’ I change it to, ‘Guns don’t kill people, Americans kill people.’ – Michael Moore
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. – Michael Moore