Quotes By 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?

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.

Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.

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.

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

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?'

Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex.

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.

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.

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.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.

I never thought I'd say this, what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the "will of the people" goes out the window.

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.

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.

This is a ridiculous heat wave we're in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air.

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a birth survivor.

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.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

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.

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.

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.