Michael Moore Quotes (78 Quotes)

People like me and people who live in factory towns just don't believe it.

Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them

I think the idea of holding a festival and promoting graffiti as an art is OK. But it has to be promoted in a way so that people don't start thinking they can go out and do this anywhere.

Before you make that year end decision (to buy an expensive item), find out what it's going to do in terms of the alternative minimum tax.

I'm going to spend my entire tax cut to help defeat you next year.

a decent, wonderful person.

Those of us who are sick and tired of cutting up animals on the beach are sick and tired of cutting up right whales. It's embarrassing the number of animals I've had to work up and it's unfathomable that we haven't been able to reduce these (deaths) more than we have.

It used to be if you worked hard and the company prospered, you prospered, ... Now, the company prospers -- but you lose your job.

I was amazed at just what a great improviser in the true sense of the word he is, As frail as Dave is in some ways, he's still as powerful as he's ever been when he sits down at the piano.

I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a deserter. What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants

Years ago, I cranked numbers. But now it's more of a leadership position, strategic planning and defining goals.

There's a reason that they're saying Kerry is the No. 1 liberal in the Senate, it's because he is the No. 1 liberal in the Senate.

This film is full of American troops over in Iraq, telling you, the audience, how demoralized they are because the Bush administration has sent them over there on a lie,

Nobody's criticized the industry more than I have over the last five years. But I also think it's time for us to have a common sense approach to getting this done. It's time for the president to step in and I believe he will,

We've gone from being one of the poorest-paid cities in the country to moving up the ladder. We're not up with Austin or Dallas or Houston yet, but we're moving closer. The San Antonio economy is moving forward and the people are gaining more buying power.

Well I failed to bring Roger to Flint. As we neared the end of the twentieth century, the rich were richer, the poor, poorer. And people everywhere now had a lot less lint, thanks to the lint rollers made in my hometown. It was truly the dawn of a new era.

If we need a law passed, obviously we need the House of Representatives and the Senate to pass that bill and guess who to sign that bill -- the president of the U.S. -- so he's a real essential player.

people. Do you think Michael Moore, Move-on and their ilk REALLY give a hoot about Cindy Sheehan

A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire. I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

They're all getting a Christmas card from me this year,

I thought Hammond had a great school system, and my classmates were very competitive. I've always done better in math than English, and always been in finance and retail.

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

Bill Gates is worth 97 billion. Ninety-seven billion, that is equal to the net worth of 120 million Americans. How did he get that rich He ain't that smart.

We think the people who have paid the bill, the taxpayers of this country, ought to be reimbursed for that.

How much longer do we need to wait until we do something about this problem The attorneys general of this country have done their job, ... Now it is up to the congress and the president.

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

The Awful Truth. We actually left the country and went to Great Britain and got Channel Four over there to produce and finance this show.

The Christian Mission does well ... and they have helped lots of homeless people. But the New Life Program cannot go on out there where we live ... I have thought hard about it, prayed hard about it, and talked to my grandfather about it. We cannot have this in our neighborhood.

We think the industry ought to be punished for what they've done in the past, killing millions of Americans, and we are going to do that.

I forgot out there on the stage to thank my cast. So if I could do that now, I want to thank Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld. I thought the love scene between Cheney and Rumsfeld brought a tear to my eye.

People are going to trust their own experiences with what they've seen with this war and it doesn't look good for Mr. Bush,

These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control.

What we are most concerned about is that during the last 90 days since we have been waiting for action from the White House, 267,000 kids have started smoking in this country... Every day we delay, 3,000 kids start smoking, and 1,000 of them are going to die.

We consider our company to be a friend of the United States.

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.

If someone did this Fahrenheit 911 to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him Boston, New York, D.C., and the planes' destination of California -- these were places that voted AGAINST Bush

They like to laugh at us.

You know heGeorge W. Bush is therein the White House illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

We're going on a journey that gets us more security all the time.

Those checks will increase every year, and we're not limited to 25 years, ... Those payments will last forever, and ever, and ever.

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

I certainly hope that on November 3, the country is returned to the majority,

We have made tremendous progress today. This was another terrific day for us. We got more concessions from the industry today.

an absurd violation of our First Amendment rights.

I don't think the average person understands, and I don't think the politicians understand that 20 billion is a pretty big shot to the economy. We're providing lots of jobs and lots of tax and lots of impact on the entire economy.

Advance is a dynamic operation with more than 4 billion in sales. The company has an excellent track record with a tremendous future for growth.

He President Bush is probably choking on a pretzel or something. I hope nobody tells him that I have won this award while he is eating a pretzel. ... He has the funniest lines in the film. I am eternally grateful to him.

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