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

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

— 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

The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.

— Michael Moore

The working people of the Flint area hated this rag, but it was our only daily so you read it. Everyone called it the "Flint Urinal." Editorially, the paper had historically been on the wrong side of every major social and political issue of the twentieth century -- "the wrong side" meaning: whatever side the union workers were on, the Urinal took the opposite position.

— Michael Moore

We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. Furthermore, we think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama bin Laden is, and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty we sanction it.

— 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

We live in the time when we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time when we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

— 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

What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what's good for General Motors is good for the country. So, their attitude was, 'We'll build it and you buy it. We'll tell you what to buy. You just buy it.'

— Michael Moore