Bill Maher Quotes

"Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit.""
- Bill Maher
(Related: God, Fire, Man, Suicide)

"The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Conservative, Country, Religious, Right)

"The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Defense, Jury, Want)

"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."
- Bill Maher
(Related: People, Hate, Tea)

"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."
- Bill Maher
(Related: People, Bed, Now, Smoking, Talking)

"Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?"
- Bill Maher
(Related: Home, Restraint, Right, Trade)

"This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Experience, Thought, Constitution, Fact, Learning, Privacy, Word)

"The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'"
- Bill Maher
(Related: Intelligence, First, National security, Today)

"To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Truth, People, Friend, Country, Friends, Will)

"We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Religion, People, Nation, Thinking)

"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Building, Cowards, Want)

"We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Rights)

"We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists."
- Bill Maher
(Related: People, Country, Sheep)

"What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Women, Country, Republican)

"When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Countries, Rest, Spain, Want, World)

"Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the "will of the people" goes out the window."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Marriage, Medical, People, Gay, Suicide)

"Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need."
- Bill Maher
(Related: God, Religion, Bureaucracy, Man)

"President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Father, Credibility, Liberal, President, Republicans)

"Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Men, Women, Taste)

"Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Class)

"The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Bible)

"Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is."
- Bill Maher
(Related: People, Wonder)

"Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Disease, Now, Sin)

"Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Deep, End, Fame)

"Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a birth survivor."
- Bill Maher

"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
- Bill Maher
(Related: Country, Flaws)

"I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Being, Day, Order, Popular, President, Stars, Television, Want)

"I never thought I'd say this, what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Thought, Needs, Personality)

"I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Punishment)

"I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Religion, Faith, Building, Disorder, Flying)

"A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Drugs, Kids, Moon, Worth)

"Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'"
- Bill Maher
(Related: Iraq, Liquor, Now, President, Will)

"It's all been satirized for your protection."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Protection)

"Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Name, Obvious)

"Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Sex, Kids)

"Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?"
- Bill Maher
(Related: God, Ego, Worship)

"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."
- Bill Maher
(Related: People, Gay, Kids, Law, Right)

"Men are only as loyal as their options."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Men, Options)

"Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence."
- Bill Maher
(Related: American, Americans, Countries, Fantasy, Land, Reality, Violence, Will)

"If you think you have it tough, read history books."
- Bill Maher
(Related: History, Books)