Laughter is sort of a natural truth detector. If you laugh at something, it's probably because there was some truth in it.
Bill MaherThere were two Republican responses to the State of the Union. So if you watched the whole night, it was kind of evolution in reverse. You have Obama, then Paul Ryan, and then Michele Bachmann. Then Animal Planet had a squirrel monkey give his take.
Bill MaherFaith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction.
Bill MaherYou know, we do a lot of complaining here in America. And that itself is something they can't do in a lot of other countries.
Bill MaherThere are two things that you have to lie to get through. One is politics, and the other is marriage.
Bill MaherI was brought up Catholic and we show my mom, my mother, my sister and then I take pains to explain on camera, that there were years after that where I wasn't really religious. I certainly wasn't a Catholic anymore, but I still lived with some mythical man in my head. I didn't really put a name to a face, but I just knew that if I was in trouble or scared I would go, 'Oh God, please help me get out of this one.'
Bill Maher