<p>Useful quotes from the film</p><p>The president bombed another country whose name we couldn’t pronounce. From the opening voiceover</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>You must always keep a sword handy. For when the pen fails.</p><p>The rockets are transported in the dead of night while the children of Columbine are asleep. Voiceover, about the weapons assembly plant in Columbine.</p><p>You think you'd like to maybe apologise to the people of Flint . . . Moore to Charlton Heston</p><p>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</p><p>. . . 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</p><p>Well, we have, probably more mixed ethnicity than other countries. Heston on the causes of American crime</p><p>. . . 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</p><p>Gun sales rose by 70% after 9/11, ammo by 140%. Figures given in the film</p><p>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.</p><p>Quotes from Moore on Letterman</p><p>Immorality breeds immorality. The fish rots from the head down.</p><p>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.</p><p>. . . we have violated that trust. We've broken the faith with them.</p><p>Moore on the 2003 Oscar stage</p><p>Shame on you, Mr President. And any time you've got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up!</p><p>Quotable Quotes</p><p>It's an American tradition to be armed. If you're not armed, you're not responsible. Michigan militia man interviewed in the film</p><p>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."</p><p>We have a vault in which we have at least 500 firearms. Bank official to Moore</p><p>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.</p><p>I didn’t really know if that was true at the time. It was only the fifth day of the war. It felt right.</p><p>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.</p>
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