The First Amendment was specifically designed for citizens to insult politicians. Libel laws were written to protect law students speaking out on political issues from getting called whores by Oxycontin addicts.
BILL MAHERThat’s what’s so great about the Internet. It allows pompous blow-hards to connect with other pompous blow-hards in a vast circle-jerk of pomposity.
More Bill Maher Quotes
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When you get people who are out of office, suddenly their tongues loosen up and suddenly they say the things that you wish they’d said or did when they were in office.
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Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.
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I don’t say that I’m an atheist. I don’t like that term, because I think it mirrors the certitude of religion. I say I don’t know. And if you don’t know – and you don’t – just man up and say you don’t know. Don’t turn to silly stories and ancient myths.
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To those people who say, ‘My father is alive because of animal experimentation,’ I say, ‘Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.’ Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade-off.
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If you have a gun, you can rob a bank, but if you have a bank, you can rob everyone.
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Who takes care of their people better? FEMA or Hezbollah?
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Halloween is a day when we all get to fool people into thinking we’re someone else. Or as Mitt Romney calls it, campaigning.
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If Jesus was a Jew, why did he have a Spanish name?
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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?
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Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
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Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don’t need.
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Based on every statement I’ve heard out of any Republican in the last two years, the Israelis are controlling our government.
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I don’t respect religon. I don’t respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.
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We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It’s overrun with sheep and conformists.
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Just honest. To me, being ‘politically incorrect’ means the opposite of being political — which means to spin everything. That’s all it’s ever meant to me. It’s never meant liberal or conservative. It means honest.
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