Bill Maher Quotes

I was raised a Republican but I don’t recognize a once proud party that has been hijacked by extremists who are driving it off the flat earth that they pretend we are living on.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

It [is] natural that in the vibration of the political pendulum, it should go from one extreme to another.

Public opinion can become polarized into a bimodal distribution with only a few people in the center and many more lying toward the extremes. But under such circumstances, democracy will probably break down …

When a president, as Trump does, demonises opponents as an un-American mob trying to destroy the country, it is not a lunatic who tries to harm them, it is a patriot.

It's been interesting seeing how vulnerable Obama is: not the secure president I thought he was or the strong leader that many people hoped he would be. He's a conciliator. But I've been listening to the Republican primary debates, and they're a bunch of lunatics. Just crazy.

You may never have heard of Joseph Overton and his proverbial window but you most certainly have heard the Republican presidential campaign in 2015 year not just flinging the window open but shattering all its glass.

I can't go out with a Republican.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

I say Republicans aren't right all the time. Democrats aren't wrong all the time - now, maybe most of the time, but not all the time.

And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

The Republican and Democratic parties have accomplished an amazing feat with the red state/blue state paradigm. They've convinced everyone that regardless of how bad they are, the other guy is worse.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

The extremists took over the primary process.

There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.