Michael Moore

“I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of 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.”

“Before there were unions, there was no middle class.”

“I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.”

“You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.”

“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.”

“I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray.”

“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 thing to do.”

“Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.”

“You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.”

“Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.”

“Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.”

“Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.”