Bill Maher Quotes

Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?

I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

Michelle Obama - they don't call her Mooch-elle for nothing.

Boris Johnson needs to be challenged, with passion, heart and precision.

Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?" Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad. I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff.

What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.

[Betsy DeVos] is quite a smart person, capable, pretty sophisticated in subtle thought. And so to me, that puts her in the realm of policy. But we're in a climate where, as today, she tries to visit a school, and she can't even do that because protesters are blocking that.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools.

Mom put a note in my lunch again, I see... Dear son, I hope you will study hard in summer school... Do not look upon it as a punishment, but rather as a privilege... We are very proud of you, and want you to have a good education. This note will self-destruct in five seconds.

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

Today is 11/11/11, a date so simple even Rick Perry can remember it.

Democracy is about criticism. I didn't elect Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time. Period. The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does. And who he has at the table. And what he does to change the world - that's what's important.

Schools teach ignorance.

Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.

There is an ugly side to Donald Trump that we all have to stop and think about what's going on here.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

If the government doesn't fund education, which they often don't, students are going to stay home and not go to school. It affects them directly. But I'm really not interested in writing explicitly about that. I'm really interested in human beings, and in love, and in family. Somehow, politics comes in.

One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

Anybody's position on an issue, anything they've said about an issue, and any way they've voted on an issue is fair game. You have every right to question that and go after it aggressively.

I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.

In In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, at that time I realized that education ... Is the power for women, and that's why the terrorists are afraid of education.

I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out of school.