Michael Moore Quotes

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

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job.

Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

I don't want to engage in politics; it's too hot.

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.

I don't know why someone would be dumb enough to challenge Donald Trump.

The topic of Sarah Palin has been open season to the media, entertainment industry, and club comics alike.

I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.

If you take stands in any way and people feel that you have any success in - a following, why those who disagree with you are going to feel very strongly about it.

I was assailed so bitterly that I hardly knew whether I was running for the Presidency or the penitentiary.

The more you expose yourself by coming out with specific positions, the more you alienate various groups.

Whenever you take a stand on an issue, people will line up around the block to kick your ass over it. By having an opinion, you make yourself a target. Why do you think Congress likes to hide behind closed doors at decision-making time?

The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power

I just don't want their support. McCarthy said he apologized to the American people for supporting me; that is just the way I want it and I wish he would say it again.

My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.

From my point of view, the Dreyfus affair is most interesting because it was sparked by a single cause celebre. Just one court case - one disputed trial - plunged an entire country into an angry debate, creating unresolvable divisions between people who had previously not known that they disagreed with one another.

Who knows controversies better than me? The controversies always chase people who are active and decision makers.

I just look at Miley Cyrus, and I'm like, 'Great, you've doubled your audience. But you've also doubled the number of people that hate you, and doesn't that hurt?' It takes a crazy person not to be affected by that.

Whatever I do becomes controversial.

Politics, by its nature, emits a lot noise.

Obviously I'm going to have haters.

There is an extensive body of writing from both sides of the political aisle that has analyzed the extraordinary depths of hatred leveled at former President George W. Bush.

Politics and public life are not for the faint of heart. It has been and always will be a noisy and cantankerous place.