Bill Maher Quotes

Most American want their politicians to support the right of abortion but they don’t want them to be too enthusiastic about it.

I notice that all of the people who support abortion are already born.

Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don't believe it to be a person but part of a woman's body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn't believe it to be a person.

America is not ready to ban abortions.

Keep a woman's right to choose unless George W. Bush is free to baby-sit.

As I say, I can't wait until Congress - half of Congress can get pregnant so we can quit fighting about birth control and Planned Parenthood.

The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade .

Abortion, however, is a big threshold issue for me because the dominant majority of people in my state are pro-choice. I ran as a pro-choice Democrat, and she fills Sandra Day O'Connor's shoes, and they are critical shoes.

As loud voices argue on, let us remember that those who advocate abortion have already been born!

I believe most Americans are pro-choice and anti-abortion.

I won't use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue.

The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless.

I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.

First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Too many women believe that abortion is a safety net; abortion is a safety hazard.

I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

In Texas, self abortion is no crime… A woman who carries out an abortion on herself has committed no crime. The law regards her as a victim.

Abortionists should be put to death.

I'm a Republican, but not on this issue [abortion]. It's destroying the party.

It [debate over abortion] has the ability to dominate things so much that you can't do anything else.

[Referring to William Clinton:] the abortion President