Michael Moore

“Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.”

“For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.”

“Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.”

“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.”

“My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.”

“Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.”

“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.”

“You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.”

“You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful.”

“One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business.”

“It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.”

“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.”

“I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.”

“The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don't pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor's appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don't make any money.”

“The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.”

“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 was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six.”

“I did not like 'The Hurt Locker.' It's a lazy way to make a movie, frankly. I could put you on the edge of your seat quite easily, and have you feel the tension for 2 hours, if every other scene practically is, 'Should we cut the red wire or the green wire?'”

“Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people?”

“If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.”

“I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually.”