America is like a dog. I’m sorry, but it is. It cannot understand actual words. It understands inflection. It understands fear. But you can’t actually explain issues to a dog.
BILL MAHERAt some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution.
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Hollywood isn’t your cesspool, America. It’s your mirror.
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Again, (America is) a stupid country with stupid people who don’t pay attention.
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The Dalai Lama visited the White House and told the President that he could teach him to find a higher state of consciousness. Then after talking to Bush for a few minutes, he said, ‘You know what? Let’s just grab lunch.’
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Only a Bush could answer a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ question two different ways and be wrong both times.
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It’s very hard not to be condescending when you’re explaining something to an idiot.
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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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In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things. But if you want to make good people do wicked things, you need them to be religious.
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Have you ever met a war you didn’t love? I’m asking, is there any place you don’t want to intervene in?
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I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
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Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn’t know a game is going on?
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When opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise.
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I feel terrible for a Palestinian child who dies. But, if it’s your father, your brother or your uncle who was firing those rockets into Israel, whose fault is it really? Do you really expect the Israelis not to retaliate?
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Now people want Brian Williams to resign, but it could have a happy ending. Apparently what he said was such a blatant departure from the truth, today he got an offer from Fox News.
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If you believe that the world is going to come to an end – and perhaps any day now – does it not drain one’s motivation to improve life on earth while we’re here?
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The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.
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