Michael Moore Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Giving Up, Believe

  "Michael Moore Wisconsin Speech: America Is Not Broke" by Michael Moore, www.thedailybeast.com. March 7, 2011.

• I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Patriotic, Thinking

• 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.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Motivation, Business

  "Koch: Moore's propaganda film cheapens debate, polarizes nation". World Tribune, June 29, 2004.

• Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Loss, Men

• We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world. Come on. We can do better than this.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Health, World

  "Sicko Is Socko" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. May 19, 2007.

• They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet... We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.

  Michael Moore

  Sarcastic, Country, Ignorance

  "The Awkward Conscience of a Nation". The Daily Mirror, November 3, 2003.

• In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%).

  Michael Moore

  Country, Jobs, War

• As the country continues to dissect the recent natural disaster, we might want to start considering what about the disaster wasn't actually 'natural' at all. ... Human activity, the burning of fossil fuels, is causing global warming. Global warming is causing the oceans to warm. Warm oceans are steroids for storms.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Ocean, Storm

• There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We've Been Told.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Lying, Politics

• A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.

  Michael Moore

  Country, War, Majority

  "GOP convention protest covers miles of New York", edition.cnn.com. August 30, 2004.

• I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Differences, Making A Difference

• North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.

  Michael Moore

  Country, America, Korea

• It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Cuba, Healthcare

• 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.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Rip, Believe

  "The capped crusader" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2003.

• We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Giving Up, Couple

• The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about being mugged or home invaded, what's the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street - or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor?

  Michael Moore

  Country, Home, Kids

  "Celebrating the Prince of Peace in the Land of Guns" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 24, 2012.

• These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control.

  Michael Moore

  Running, Country, Needs

  Michael Moore (2004). “Dude, Where's My Country?”

• 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. 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

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "Michael Moore: Gun Control Necessary, Now" by Nicole Evatt, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2013.

• I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn't understand, like a foreign language, or a salad.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Baby, Brain

• When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Philosophy, War

• I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want to deal with the situation at hand which is the ongoing killing on both sides. . . . . . . It's true that there's also much oppression of Palestinians in Arab countries, where Palestinians aren't allowed to vote or own property and are treated as second class citizens and pawns in the fight against Israel. But I'm not going to spend my time on this since there is isn't a whole lot I can do about it.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Fighting, Hands

• 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.

  Michael Moore

  Country, War, Lying

• How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Gun, Democracy

• I think if people who are attacking me or against me, if they would just watch one of my films, they would - they may not agree with me politically on all the things I'm saying. But they will know at the end of the film that I love this country and that I have a heart. And they'll have a good laugh throughout the film.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Heart, Thinking

• It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Issues, Race

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