Michael Moore

“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...”

“I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.”

“There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.”

“First of all, the American people are inundated with advertisement after advertisement of you buy, buy, buy. You've got to have the latest thing. The iPad 1 isn't any good anymore, you've go...”

“Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11.”

“The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will w...”

“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 can do to be better?'”

“We should be licensing everybody with a gun. I have to have a license for my dog. I have to have a license for my car. If you're going to do my hair later you have to have a license... We do...”

“Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not...”

“I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.”

“Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising.”

“I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral t...”

“Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind.”

“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 and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B.”

“Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.”

“There's nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I'm not against any of these things. It's about how you make that mon...”

“Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.”

“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.”

“I don't want to be pigeonholed into the guy who's against everything.”

“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.”