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" Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open. "

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" I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information. "

Michael Moore

Democracy

Information

People

" Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego. "

" White people scare the crap out of me. "

Michael Moore

Scare

Crap

" 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. "

" I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change. "

" 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 would be better off if Oprah were president. "

" How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three of them would end up precisely on their targets? "

Michael Moore

Sitting

Cave

" 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. "

" I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy. "

" I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work. "

" I like America to some extent. "

" 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. "

" Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power. "

" Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state. "

" There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters. "

" 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture. "

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

" They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't. "

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

Michael Moore

People

Blessed

" 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. "

" Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system. "

" For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well. "

" 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? "

" If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the people who have their money in the credit union. "

" Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. 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. "

" Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried. "

" Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times. "

Michael Moore

Liberal

Artists

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

" I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker. "

" 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 have to go through that health-care system, already know it. "

Michael Moore

Know

American