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" 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 got to have the iPad 2. The iPhone 4, now you've got to have iPhone 4S. Now you've got to have the 5b, now you've got to have the 6c. "

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" This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas. "

Michael Moore

White

Canada

Book

" People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education. "

" 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 around the world. "

" My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line. "

" Documentaries are a form of journalism. "

" All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. "

Michael Moore

You

Prey

" I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist. "

" 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 thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac. "

" Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars, they would have been arrested - or worse. "

" 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. "

" It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it. "

" Diets are a scam. "

Michael Moore

Diets

Scam

" Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want. "

" A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep. "

Michael Moore

Health

Care

" How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it. "

" It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun. "

" The American media wants to pump you full of fear. "

" There's not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things work better when the people who have to work with whatever it is we're working with have a say in how it's working. "

" I watch way too much C-SPAN. "

" I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years. "

" In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates. "

" 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 take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality. "

" I'm very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies. "

Michael Moore

People

Blessed

" It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country. "

" 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. "

" I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000. "

Michael Moore

Him

Office

" 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. "

" I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code. "

" The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them. "