Michael Moore citations (92 citations, Page 2)

I think that what's disgusting is that, because the Democrats haven't done their job being a loyal opposition, the French have become the new Democrats! What is that? How disgusting is that? The French have become the Democratic Party!
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Dans une discussion publique avec l'ex secrétaire de presse du président Clinton, Joe Lockhart.
Stupid White Men, 2001

démocratie

“Nous sommes tous assis sur un baril de poudre, et nous savons que nous avons intérêt à être vigilants pour le jour où les victimes de notre racisme et de notre avidité nous demanderont des comptes.”

Michael Moore livre Mike contre-attaque !

Stupid White Men, 2001

“Nos juges et nos avocats ne sont plus guère que des espèces d'éboueurs en robe de magistrat chargés de recueillir et d'éliminer les rebuts de la société. Il s'agit d'une espèce de nettoyage ethnique à l'américaine.”

Michael Moore livre Mike contre-attaque !

Stupid White Men, 2001

guerre

“Les jurés sont des empêcheurs d'incarcérer en rond.”

Michael Moore livre Mike contre-attaque !

Stupid White Men, 2001

“Et s'il n'y avait pas vraiment de”

Michael Moore livre Mike contre-attaque !

Stupid White Men, 2001

“Les chances que ce gouvernement fasse bénéficier les personnes âgées de mesures d'aide médicale sont à peu près aussi grandes que celles que je m'immole par le feu devant une pharmacie.”

Michael Moore livre Mike contre-attaque !

Stupid White Men, 2001

chance , personnes

“Le problème des humains, c'est que, quand on les maltraite, ils ont souvent tendance à maltraiter leurs semblables par la suite.”

Michael Moore livre Mike contre-attaque !

Stupid White Men, 2001

problème

“Quand les Noirs et les Blancs feront l'amour ensemble - au lieu que les Noirs se fassent simplement baiser par les Blancs -, on finira peut-être par avoir une Amérique où tout le monde sera de la même couleur.”

Michael Moore livre Mike contre-attaque !

Stupid White Men, 2001

baiser , amour , monde , couleur

Michael Moore: Citations en anglais

“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.
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 win. Get it, Mr. Bush?”

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Michael Moore

2004

“There is a lot of talk amongst Bush's opponents that we should turn this war over to the United Nations. Why should the other countries of this world, countries who tried to talk us out of this folly, now have to clean up our mess? I oppose the U. N. or anyone else risking the lives of their citizens to extract us from our debacle. I'm sorry, but the majority of Americans supported this war once it began and, sadly, that majority must now sacrifice their children until enough blood has been let that maybe — just maybe — God and the Iraqi people will forgive us in the end.”

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[Heads Up... from Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com, 14 April 2004, http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikes-letter/heads-up-from-michael-moore]
2004

“I would not use either of those words to describe myself. I would say I'm an Eagle Scout and I'm overweight.”

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When asked what he thought about he thought about people who called him un-American and a traitor, as quoted in "Filmmaker rehashes politics in Dome speech" in The Daily Orange (23 September 2004) http://media.www.dailyorange.com/media/storage/paper522/news/2004/09/23/Pulp/Filmmaker.Rehashes.Politics.In.Dome.Speech-728133.shtml
2004

“A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.”

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The Corporation (2004)
2004

“There are problems in all health-care systems, but at least [Europeans] have a health-care system that covers everyone, and it's not my position or my right or my responsibility to point out the flaws in [your] health-care system — that is your job — it is your job to fix those problems.”

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Casa del Cinema press conference, Rome, Italy, (August 2007)
2007

“It was the morning of April 20, 1999, and it was pretty much like any other morning in America. The Farmer did his chores. The milkman made his deliveries. The President bombed another country whose name we couldn't pronounce. Out in Fargo, North Dakota, Cary McWilliams went on his morning walk. Back in Michigan, Mrs Hughes welcomed her students for another day of school. And out in a little town in Colorado, two boys went bowling at 6 in the morning. Yes, it was a typical day in the United States of America.”

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Bowling for Columbine (2002) [released 11 October 2002]
2002

“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.”

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2004

“How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after we were attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose main qualification was that he ran horse shows?”

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[A Letter to All Who Voted for George W. Bush from Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com, 11 September 2005, http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikes-letter/a-letter-to-all-who-voted-for-george-w-bush-from-michael-moore]
2005

“Clearly something has happened here that no one expected. And there aren't words to describe how any of us feel this morning on hearing this news.”

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[The Political 'Fahrenheit' Sets Record At Box Office, The New York Times, 28 June 2004, Sharon, Waxman]
On the movie Fahrenheit 9/11 breaking all box office records for a documentary in its first weekend, and becoming the first documentary ever to become number one at the box office in North American ticket sales.
2004, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

“The majority of Americans — the ones who never elected you — are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction.”

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About President George W. Bush, in "A Letter to George W. Bush on the Eve of War" (17 March 2003) http://www.alternet.org/story/15406/
2003

“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.”

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As quoted in Koch: Moore's propaganda film cheapens debate, polarizes nation, Ed, Koch, World Tribune, 29 June 2004 http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2004/guest_koch_6_28.html,
2004

“Our young people who go off to war and who join the service, we need to honor them because they're willing to risk their lives to protect us, to defend us, so we can have this way of life. And the agreement that they make with us is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. I think most Americans — I just saw the latest poll today — 54% now believe that invading Iraq wasn't the wisest thing to do — it wasn't certainly in self-defense. You weren't threatened; I wasn't being threatened, and that's the only time, because ultimately if it was your child…would you give up your child to secure Fallujah?”

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On the television program Late Night with Conan O'Brien (25 June 2004)
2004

“Maybe it's a sick fantasy of mine, but I am really looking forward to a debate between a general and a deserter. Plus, I really want to hear President Bush have to say, "Yes, General, No, General."”

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On prospects of a debate between Wesley Clark and George W. Bush, as quoted at Treason Online (29 October 2003) http://treasononline.blogspot.com/2003_10_26_archive.html
2003

“Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns!”

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A phrase used in some advertisements, it is wordplay based on the title of Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451 about a totalitarian state, and the assertion made within it that 451° Fahrenheit was "The temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns."
2004, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

“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”

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and we don't even speak that very well.
On Americans in an Open Letter to the German publication Die Zeit (11 June 2003) (published in German) http://www.zeit.de/2003/46/AbdruckMoor
2003

“Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?”

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2005

“I want to thank all the right-wing organizations out there who tried to stop the film, either from their harassment campaign that didn't work on the theatre owners, or going to the FEC to get our ads removed from television, to all the things that have been said on television. It's only encouraged more people to go and see it. We are happy to announce that the efforts of the small-minded few have failed miserably.”

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On the movie Fahrenheit 9/11 breaking box office records. — Zap2it.com (27 June 2004) http://www.zap2it.com/movies/go?path=/movies/news/story&general_id=22014
2004, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

“There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.”

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The capped crusader, The Guardian, 4 October 2003, Gary, Younge http://www.guardian.co.uk/michaelmoore/story/0,,1055591,00.html,
2003

“You've got the Bush Administration using that event in such a disrespectful and immoral way — using the deaths of those people to try and shred our civil liberties, change our Constitution, round people up. That's not how you honor them, by using them to change our way of life as a free country.”

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On the use of the September 11th attacks to expand governmental powers and diminish civil liberties, through "The Patriot Act". — CBS interview (June 2004) http://news4colorado.com/topstories/topstories_story_179195105.html
2004, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

“Moore called the Affordable Care Act “awful” and added that, “Obamacare’s rocky start … is a result of one fatal flaw: The Affordable Care Act is a pro-insurance-industry plan implemented by a president who knew in his heart that a single-payer, Medicare-for-all model was the true way to go.” Nonetheless, Moore considered the plan a "godsend" since it provides a start "to get what we deserve: universal quality health care.””

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Op-Ed written by Michael Moore in the New York Times (31 December 2013)
2013

“My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.”

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Interview while promoting Capitalism : A Love Story (March 2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx2tJg91hsU
2010

“How about that McDonalds two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the nineteen hijackers.”

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On HBO's "Real Time" http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/09/18/michael-moore-mcdonalds-ground-zero-killed-more-people-9-11-hijackers#ixzz0zzGIpSLV (September 17, 2010)
2010

“Many families have been devastated tonight. This is just not right. They did not deserve to die. … If someone did this 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 the places that voted AGAINST Bush.”

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Statement of 12 September 2001 attributed to Moore, as published in [Michael Moore, Humbug, City Journal, Summer 2003, Kay S., Hymowitz, http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_3_michael_moore.html]
2001

“Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks -- most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 -- now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined.”

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Speech delivered at Wisconsin Capitol in Madison (5 March 2011)
Claim found to be "true" by PolitiFact and others.
2011

“The next wave of fascists will not come with cattle cars and concentration camps, but they'll come with a smiley face and maybe a TV show … That’s how the 21st-century fascists will essentially take over.”

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" Michael Moore: Fascists Now Come With ‘A Smiley Face And Maybe A TV Show’ https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-moore-donald-trump_us_5829c5bce4b02d21bbc97cab" - stated right after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, and inspired by the 1980 book, Friendly Fasicism (November 14, 2016)
2016

“Because it would be Un-American.”

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Reply to a question as to why the standing down of the NORAD aerial forces on September 11, 2001 was not included in his movie Fahrenheit 9/11, as seen Martial Law: 9/11 Rise of the Police State (03:34, 2005) by Alex Jones.
2005

“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.”

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[Dude, Where's My Country?, 2003, 0446532231, 53112245]
2003

“No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing — NOTHING — to do with this!”

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[Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush, MichaelMoore.com, 2 September 2005, http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikes-letter/vacation-is-over-an-open-letter-from-michael-moore-to-george-w-bush]
2005

“The French, the British and the Canadian stuff that's in the films is through my American eyes, and I'm comparing it to America, and I'm not saying they don't have problems. But those aren't for me to fix. Trust me, from an American point of view, the Europeans look pretty good. You need to preserve what you have and fight to get back that which you lost.”

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Interview with Jay Harris http://www.thebragmag.com/features/michael-moore-talks-to-the-bra.php, in The Brag (August 2007)
2007

“He 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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Statement about US President George W. Bush, at press conference after winning the top prize at the Cannes film festival for Fahrenheit 9/11; quoted in Reuters reports (22 May 2004) http://guardianangels-mn.org/Minnesota/Too-funny-to-keep-in-mn.politics.html and in [Moore scoops Palme d'Or with attack on US president, Patrick, Barkham, The Guardian, 24 May 2004, http://film.guardian.co.uk/cannes2004/story/0,,1223156,00.html]
2004