Bill Maher Quotes
Sarah Palin has already had an effect on foreign relations... The new president of Pakistan, Ali Zardari, is in hot water, because last week, Sarah was on a class trip to New York, where she met foreign leaders... And one of the leaders she met was Zardari, and he was gushing over her. He said, oh, you're more gorgeous in person than you are on TV. And so the people in his home country of Pakistan, the Islamists, they issued a fatwa on him, for being too 'flirty.' And when Sarah today was told that Zardari had gotten a fatwa because of her, she said, 'I know, I felt it when he hugged me.'
Maher, Bill. Monologue. Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO, 26 Sept. 2008.
President Wilson had gone to Paris for peace treaty negotiations. Ex-President Roosevelt was on his deathbed. But even then TR was his politically contentious self.
Kissinger had observed in his unpopular view that he was saying exactly what the George W. Bush administration had officially said on several occasions. This response is quoted by those who use it as an example of how low the reputation of the George W. Bush administration had sank with America’s foreign allies. Kissinger was seen as a much more important and influential factor despite the fact that he had been out of office for over two decades. At the time, many American allies had given up on Bush and because he was so unpopular with Americans as well as foreigners, they assumed that his statements would not represent American policy or opinion as soon as Bush’s term was over. The new President of whichever party would, it was assumed, repudiate most of the Bush actions and try and rebuild America’s shattered reputation. In that scenario, Kissinger’s views would not only be more representative of American positions than that of Bush and his diplomatic representatives.
William Maher is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host. He is known for the HBO political talk show Real Time with Bill Maher (2003–present) and the similar late-night show called Politically Incorrect (1993–2002), originally on Comedy Central and later on ABC.
