Michael Moore

Michael Moore

"Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U. S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems."
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"Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U. S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems."
Michael Moore
"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."
Michael Moore
"Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed."
Michael Moore
"I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people."
Michael Moore
"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."
Michael Moore
"I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity."
Michael Moore
"We should be licensing everybody with a gun. I have to have a license for my dog. I have to have a license for my car. If you're going to do my hair later you have to have a license... We don't require a license to own a firearm?"
Michael Moore
"People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us."
Michael Moore
"Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for."
Michael Moore
"All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey."
Michael Moore
"My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year."
Michael Moore
"A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us."
Michael Moore
"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."
Michael Moore
"I think movies are too long."
Michael Moore
"When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained."
Michael Moore
"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."
Michael Moore
"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."
Michael Moore
"If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie."
Michael Moore
"The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity."
Michael Moore
"We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers."
Michael Moore
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