Michael Moore In Quotes

by John Hawkins | June 24, 2004 1:18 am

Tomorrow is the big nationwide debut of Michael Moore’s new movie, “Fahrenheit 9/11”. So, as a tribute to the most popular author and film maker on the left, I’ve decided to post some of Michael Moore’s best quotes.

Enjoy!

PS: If I left any great MM quotes out, put them in the comments section and if I like them, I’ll add them in later tonight.

“If someone did this [9/11] 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 places that voted AGAINST Bush!” — Michael Moore On 9/12/2001

“There is no terrorist threat in this country. This is a lie. This is the biggest lie we’ve been told.” — Michael Moore, October 2003

“In terms of marketing (Fahrenheit 9/11), Front Row is getting a boost from organisations related to Hezbollah[1] which have rung up from Lebanon to ask if there is anything they can do to support the film. And although Chacra says he and his company feel strongly that Fahrenheit is not anti-American, but anti-Bush, ‘we can’t go against these organisations as they could strongly boycott the film in Lebanon and Syria.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“Unfortunately, Bush and Co. are not through yet. This invasion and conquest will encourage them to do it again elsewhere. The real purpose of this war was to say to the rest of the world, “Don’t Mess with Texas – If You Got What We Want, We’re Coming to Get It!”

“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”

“(Americans) are possibly the dumbest people on the planet … in thrall to conniving, thieving, smug pr*cks. We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don’t know about anything that’s happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.”

“DO YOU FEEL like you live in a nation of idiots? I used to console myself about the state of stupidity in this country by repeating this to myself: Even if there are two hundred million stone-cold idiots in this country, that leaves at least eighty million who will get what I’m saying…” — P. 85 of “Stupid White Men[2]“

“(T)he dumbest Brit here is smarter than the smartest American”. — Michael Moore At London’s Roundhouse Theater[3]

“On his North American tour in support of Dude, Where’s My Country, Moore substituted Canadians for Britons, telling audiences that the “dumbest Canadian” in attendance could surely outwit ‘the smartest American.'” — Moorewatch[4]

“Should such an ignorant people (Americans) lead the world?” — Michael Moore[5] in an open letter to the people of Germany

“There’s a gullible side[6] to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.”

“I like America to some extent.” — Michael Moore’s response after being asked “You do not seem to like the U.S., do you?”

“Moore wrote he’d once been “forced” to listen to my comments on a TV chat show, The McLaughlin Group. I had whined “on and on about the sorry state of American education,” Moore said, and wound up by bellowing: “These kids don’t even know what The Iliad and The Odyssey are!” Moore’s interest was piqued, so the next day he said he called me. “Fred,” he quoted himself as saying, “tell me what The Iliad and The Odyssey are.” I started “hemming and hawing,” Moore wrote. And then I said, according to Moore: “Well, they’re . . . uh . . . you know . . . uh . . . okay, fine, you got me–I don’t know what they’re about. Happy now?” He’d smoked me out as a fraud, or maybe worse. The only problem is none of this is true. It never happened. Moore is a liar. He made it up. It’s a fabrication on two levels. One, I’ve never met Moore or even talked to him on the phone. And, two, I read both The Iliad and The Odyssey in my first year at the University of Virginia. Just for the record, I’d learned what they were about even before college.” — Fred Barnes[7]

“You know in my town the small businesses that everyone wanted to protect? They were the people that supported all the right-wing groups. They were the Republicans in the town, they were in the Kiwanas, the Chamber of Commerce – people that kept the town all white. The small hardware salesman, the small clothing store salespersons, Jesse the Barber who signed his name three different times on three different petitions to recall me from the school board. F*ck all these small businesses – f*ck ’em all! Bring in the chains. The small businesspeople are the rednecks that run the town and suppress the people. F*ck ’em all. That’s how I feel.”

“White people scare the crap out of me. … I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord … never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I’ve never heard a black person say, ‘We’re going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here – have a nice day!'”

“It was when Moore went into a rant about how the passengers on the planes on 11 September were scaredy-cats because they were mostly white. If the passengers had included black men, he claimed, those killers, with their puny bodies and unimpressive small knives, would have been crushed by the dudes, who as we all know take no disrespect from anybody.” — From an article by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown[8] describing a Michael Moore show in London

“Since September 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 [with] one or two September 11s martial law will be declared in our country and we’re inching towards a police state.”

“The Patriot Act is the first step. “Mein Kampf” — “Mein Kampf” was written long before Hitler came to power. And if the people of Germany had done something early on to stop these early signs, when the right-wing, when the extremists such as yourself (Bob Novak), decide that this is the way to go, if people don’t speak up against this, you end up with something like they had in Germany. I don’t want to get to that point.”

“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.”

“I think (Bin Laden is under the protective watch of) the United States, I think our government knows where he is and I don’t think we’re going to be capturing him or killing him any time soon.” — Michael Moore in an interview with Bob Costas[9]

***Update #1:***: Lee from Right Thinking From The Left Coast[10] and MooreWatch[11] sent me a really nifty flyer that they’re encouraging people to pass out outside of theaters where “Faherenheit 9/11” is showing. The flyer, which you can see here[12] (.PDF file) had some nifty Michael Moore quotes which I checked out and then added to the original post.

Endnotes:
  1. Hezbollah: http://www.hiff.fi/uutiset/?id=20040609fahren
  2. Stupid White Men: http://www.bowlingfortruth.com/stupidwhitemen/5.htm
  3. London’s Roundhouse Theater: http://moorewatch.com/comments.php?id=P424_0_1_0_C
  4. Moorewatch: http://moorewatch.com/comments.php?id=P424_0_1_0_C
  5. Michael Moore: http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/2003/11/die_zeit_prsent.html#more
  6. gullible side: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/10/1065676154259.html?from=storyrhs&oneclick=true
  7. Fred Barnes: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/127ujhuf.asp
  8. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/yasmin_alibhai_brown/story.jsp?story=366725
  9. Bob Costas: https://rightwingnews1.wpenginepowered.com/archives/week_2003_05_11.PHP#000934
  10. Right Thinking From The Left Coast: http://www.right-thinking.com/
  11. MooreWatch: http://moorewatch.com/index.php/weblog/comments/688
  12. here: http://www.moorewatch.com/f911flyer.pdf

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