A biography for Bill Maherhasn’t been written yet.
“Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.”
“I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.”
“Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?”
“Isn't it time we asked ourselves, are we willing to accept any behavior codified within religious or cultural practice? Is there no line to be drawn? If honor killings are okay, then why not virgin sacrifices or cannibalism or sex with children outside the church? We have perversely taken our notion of tolerance to such extremes that we've become tolerant of intolerance.”
“Curious people are interesting people; I wonder why that is.”
“I don't ridicule religion, it ridicules itself.”
“When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain.”
“Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?”
“Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.”
“Fascism is when corporations become the government.”
“The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.”
“We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.”
“New Rule: Americans have to come up with a better cheese to represent the nation than American cheese. I'm not even sure American cheese is cheese. I think it's aged Jell-O. And it doesn't need to be individually wrapped in plastic, either. You're thinking of condoms.”
“The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of”
“אנשים כל הזמן אומרים שלישראל יש את הזכות להגן על עצמה ואז הם מתנגדים לכל מה שישראל עושה.”
“נהגתי תמיד בקהל כמו בחבר – ואני מתכוון לחבר אמיתי. אני נותן בהם אמון די הצורך לומר דברים שאולי הם לא רוצים לשמוע. לא על הכול אנחנו מסכימים, וגם אין צורך שנסכים על הכול, כי חברים לא עוזבים זה את זה בגלל חילוקי דעות.”
“הווֹקיזם בצורתו הנוכחית הוא לא שלוחה של הליברליזם; אדרבה, לא פעם הוא ההפך הגמור. בדרך כלל לא מדובר בהרחבת הליברליזם המסורתי אלא בחיסולו.”
“יש לנו סיעות שרוצות רק לשמוע את החלקים שבזכותם הם יכולים להרגיש עליונים על האנשים הבזויים שבצד האחר.”
“הבעיה היא שהאנשים עם הרעיונות הכי מגוחכים הם תמיד אלה שהכי בטוחים בהם.”
“סקס הוא קל מדי להשגה עבור נשים וקשה מדי להשגה עבור גברים.”