By Russell Brown

Useful quotes from the film

The president bombed another country whose name we couldn’t pronounce. From the opening voiceover

I knew you were going to make me spell that. Moore acts dumb for the cameras, in the opening bank sequence, when the bank employee asks him to write “Caucasian” on a form.

Moore: Why not use Ghandi’s way? He didn’t have any guns, and he beat the British Empire. Interviewee: I’m not familiar with that.

You must always keep a sword handy. For when the pen fails.

The rockets are transported in the dead of night while the children of Columbine are asleep. Voiceover, about the weapons assembly plant in Columbine.

You think you'd like to maybe apologise to the people of Flint . . . Moore to Charlton Heston

We're making a documentary about the whole gun issue. I'm a member of the NRA. Moore to Heston as he makes an appointment to interview him

. . . one of the rights passed down to me by those wise old dead white guys that invented this country. Heston confirming that he exercises his right to bear arms

Well, we have, probably more mixed ethnicity than other countries. Heston on the causes of American crime

. . . the business plan calls for this to be complete within the continental US within 90 days. K-Mart on phasing out sales of handgun ammo

Gun sales rose by 70% after 9/11, ammo by 140%. Figures given in the film

I told them that someone here would listen to them. Moore to a K-Mart PR spokesperson, talking about the wounded Columbine pupils he has brought to K-Mart HQ to return the bullets that were shot into them.

Quotes from Moore on Letterman

Immorality breeds immorality. The fish rots from the head down.

It's a question that Bush needs to answer this year, before this election. . . . there are no smarter men than you, Dave. they [the media] played cheerleader.

. . . we have violated that trust. We've broken the faith with them.

Moore on the 2003 Oscar stage

Shame on you, Mr President. And any time you've got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up!

Quotable Quotes

It's an American tradition to be armed. If you're not armed, you're not responsible. Michigan militia man interviewed in the film

You don't bring that with you do you? When you're. . . negotiating the real estate?/ Moore to a militiaman who has stated his occupation, proudly, as "real estate negotiator."

We have a vault in which we have at least 500 firearms. Bank official to Moore

I knew you were going to make me spell that (spells it out aloud). . . is that right? Moore to bank official after she has instructed him to mark "Caucasian" on the application form.

I didn’t really know if that was true at the time. It was only the fifth day of the war. It felt right.

The media in this country did us such a disservice, by not asking the hard questions when we got into this war . . . they played cheerleader.