Michael Moore Quotes

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• I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs,…
• 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…
• 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.…
• I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and…
• I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get…
• I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the…
• I think if people who are attacking me or against me, if they would just watch one of my films, they would - they may…
• I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and…
• I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I…
• I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in…
• 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…
• I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what…
• I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm sure most people…
• 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…
• I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you…
• I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise…
• I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it…
• I've made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren't enough hours in the day to respond to either the well-financed…
• I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and…
• If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they…

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