Bill Maher Quotes

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

It should be clear to everyone what happens when the populists can set the agenda.

Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep. And when I see the Tea Party and all this stuff, it actually feels like racism’s almost over. Because this is the last - this is the act up before the sleep. They’re going crazy. They’re insane. You want to get rid of them - and the next thing you know, they’re fucking knocked out. And that’s what’s going on in the country right now.

The U.S. that I had imagined was nowhere near as crazy and as incredibly damaging and brutal and indifferent as the U.S. that we're currently living in. I thought I was being transgressive, apocalyptic, an out-there person. And then reality lapped me, it just lapped me.

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

America is a mess. We don't even know what to look for anymore, folks. Our country has to straighten out. And we have to straighten out fast.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

America is in such trouble.

There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.

There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And they sound very convincing, they're very self-confident, and they have an answer to everything - a crazy answer, but it's an answer. And it's our fault if that goes on. So one thing to be done is don't ridicule these people, join them, and talk about their real grievances and give them a sensible answer, like, "Take over your factories."

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

Look, we're living in a crazy time right now. There's a lot of craziness going on in the world and in the United States in particular.

I cannot find words to express the depth of my loss or outrage about what's happening to this country. I don't know if I can find the words for it, but if this country ever recovers, it will not be in my lifetime. If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

In June 1968, five days before my mother's forty -sixth birthday, the world fell apart again. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy, who died the next day. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

The Tea Baggers, they're not a movement, they're a cult.... Cults tend to populate from within, encouraging members to have huge broods of children and to give them strange names, like Moonbeam, and Trig.

Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.