Michael Moore Interview:
On winning people over to his political point of view:"I’ve had people come up to me on the street and say to me, 'I’m so sorry. I used to be against you and I used to say bad things about you. You were right about the war and all these things. I’m so sorry.' I always say to them, 'You don’t owe me an apology. You believed your president. You’re supposed to believe your president! You’re supposed to believe the president!' Because if we can’t do that anymore, where are we?"
On the bad financial role models of late:
"A whole generation now has been raised to believe that you should actually spend your time and your money trying to make money off your money. But by doing that, this is why we’re not coming up with a cure for cancer. We’re not coming up with the next great invention in the States. We’re not doing any of the things that society would really benefit from because we haven’t made the reward that if you do that, if you’re the next Thomas Edison or Henry Ford and you come up with a great idea, we’re going to reward you for that. Nobody faults that but instead, the hotshots, the ones we put on the covers of Fortune and Forbes and even Time and Newsweek are the ones who have made money off of money, and they don’t produce anything. They don’t invent anything. They don’t make the world a better place, but a lot of working people got sucked into this."
On the government cover-up of FBI warnings on mortgage fraud:
"The warning was there and it was buried. Bush was so smart about this. They not only buried it. They took 500 FBI agents who were working on this white collar crime fraud, and moved them over to the terrorism department. You know, the take your shoes and underpants off department. Of course we know, and you know from what you’ve had to suffer through with your own home, that the real terrorism here has not been committed from some boogeyman someplace else. The terrorism was created by Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Chase and all these guys."
