Quotes by Michael Moore

“One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America -- and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simpl...”

“[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.”

“A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.”

“...I have a theory about why and how all this has happened to you.Instead of having to earn it, you have been handed the presidency, the same way you've come by everything else in your life. Money ...”

“It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I doubt the spread in annual wages (except for the osteopath) exceeded more than five thousand dollar...”

“How does paying people more money make you more money?It works like this. The more you pay your workers, the more they spend. Remember, they're not just your workers- they're your consumers, too. T...”

“I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.”

“As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave foremen a blank check to mistreat blacks and keep them out of the high-rate mac...”

“Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.”

“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 thi...”

“I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.”

“We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and h...”

“If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and acc...”

“Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America ...”

“Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.”

“For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mo...”

“The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.”

“We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believ...”

“My employees, there's no deductible in your health care. No deductible, absolutely not. You get paid sick days, as many as you need, personal days.”

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