Michael Moore

"Well I failed to bring Roger to Flint. As we neared the end of the twentieth century, the rich were richer, the poor, poorer. And people everywhere now had a lot less lint, thanks to the lint rollers made in my hometown. It was truly the dawn of a new era."

"Many families have been devastated tonight. This is just not right. They did not deserve to die. … If someone did this 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 the places that voted AGAINST Bush."

"The majority of Americans — the ones who never elected you — are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction."

"Im a millionaire, Im a multi-millionaire, Im filthy rich. You know why Im a multi-millionaire? Cause multi-millions like what I do. Thats pretty good, isnt it? Theres millions that believe in what I do. Pretty cool, huh?"

"Whoa. On behalf of our producers Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, Id like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to — theyre here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether its the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much."

"We know all those facts about Florida and what Katherine Harris did, and the private firm that took African-Americans off the voting rolls and prohibited them from voting. But Ive been surprised in this first week how many average Americans were not aware of all of the trickery and deceit that took place in the year before the election to fix it for George W. Bush."

"You know hes there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida."

"Clearly something has happened here that no one expected. And there arent words to describe how any of us feel this morning on hearing this news."

"I forgot out there on the stage to thank my cast. So if I could do that now, I want to thank Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld. I thought the love scene between Cheney and Rumsfeld brought a tear to my eye."

"Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us dont even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English (and we dont even speak that very well.)"

"I want to thank all the right-wing organizations out there who tried to stop the film, either from their harassment campaign that didnt work on the theatre owners, or going to the FEC to get our ads removed from television, to all the things that have been said on television. Its only encouraged more people to go and see it. We are happy to announce that the efforts of the small-minded few have failed miserably."

"If the small businesses suck theyll be driven out of business... If they got a good restaurant, people will go there and eat. 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. Fuck all these small businesses — fuck em all! Bring in the chains. The small businesspeople are the rednecks that run the town and suppress the people. Fuck em all. Thats how I feel."