Real Time with Bill Maher (season 14) Quotes

Real Time with Bill Maher is a television show that was first aired in 2016 on HBO. Real Time with Bill Maher completed its run in 2016.

Real Time with Bill Maher lasted 38 episodes.

Real Time with Bill Maher Quotes

• (Bill Maher) "All right, speaking of brave women, I have Ann Coulter waiting for me via satellite."
• (Richard Belzer) "I'm going to leave."
• (Bill Maher) "Don't. No, no, you're not. Sit right there. You know what? This is what's wrong with America. People don't even want to listen to each other. She is a friend of mine, and you will listen."
• (Richard Belzer) "She's a Fascist Party doll. Go ahead, just show her, baby. I think she's had some work done. But go ahead."
• (Bill Maher) "No. SHUT UP, BELZER."
• (Bill Maher) "Boy, I'm trying to defend you, baby, but it ain't easy over here."
• (Ann Coulter) "Hey, is that Richard; is that Richard Belzer on the panel?"
• (Bill Maher) "Boy, is he."
• (Ann Coulter) "I thought it was Osama bin Laden. I can only hear."
• (Bill Maher) "Ann Coulter, ladies and gentlemen. Jesus Christ, this is what is wrong with this; and I want to get to this. You know, this is a friend of mine, and this is; I think you guys; you; this is why --"
• (Richard Belzer) "What are you talking about?"
• (Bill Maher) "No, I'm saying that people --"
• (Richard Belzer) "I've seen her hundreds of times."
• (Bill Maher) "I know, but --"
• (Richard Belzer) "She's a repugnant person who says the most vile things. She lies. She's a liar and you know that. You just confronted her on ten different things. I mean, come on, man. Some people, you have to call them for what they are."

• (Unnamed) "This planet is getting hot. And the only way to solve Global Warming is to elect Hillary Clinton -- because that is one cold bitch."

• (Bill Maher) "New rule: Canadian bacon isn't bacon. It's ham."

• (Mario Cuomo) "When President Lincoln prayed, he talked to God. When President Bush prayed, God talked to Bush."

• (Bill Maher) "New rule: Time Magazine has to change its name to God Weekly. This week, Mary is on the cover again. In the last two years, Time has put out: "The Secrets of the Nativity", "The God Gene", "Faith, God and the Oval Office", "The Bible and the Apocalypse", "Who Was Moses?", "What Jesus Saw", "Why Did Jesus Have to Die?", "Jesus in 2000." If Jesus gets any more free press, he's going to start thinking he's Paris Hilton. Look, I understand we have a lot of Christians in this nation, but how about a little equal time? "Vishnu to Ganesh: Drop Dead". And "Is There No Pleasing Zeus?""

• (Bill Maher) "New rule: After the plane lands, airlines must stop saying, "Thank you for choosing us." There is no choosing anymore. I took the only flight that left within eight hours of when I wanted to go by the only other airline that went there. Choosing. Nobody chooses Southwest. Southwest chooses you. If I need to be in Spokane, Washington, by tomorrow morning, I either take the flight I'm given or I mail myself in a FedEx box."

• (Unnamed) "Start the clock."
• (Unnamed) "Good afternoon. At the tone the time will be --"
• (Unnamed) "Real time."
• (Unnamed) "Real time. Real time. Do you know what time it is? Time it is?"
• (Unnamed) "R-E-A-L T-I-M-E, 1 2 3 4 5 6 --"
• (Unnamed) "Seven, eight --"

• (George Galloway) "Christians believe in the Prophets, peace be upon them. Bush believes in the profits and how to get a piece of them"

• (Bill Maher) "You know, if there's one thing I've hated since 9/11, it's that thing I hear all the time, that everything changed. When obviously nothing changed. The best example from the hurricane was the firefighters who came from I forget where, but they were sent down there to help, and they were given; before they could get to the disaster area; eight hours of sexual harassment sensitivity training. Forgetting that most women want to be harassed by firefighters."
• (Bill Maher) "And I'm glad you cheered because Ann Coulter gave me that joke."

• (Aaron McGruder) "Let's say, y'know, ten years from now we discover all these really intelligent things that "Dubya" has written. Does it somehow make it better if he was actually a genius and masterminded the dumb thing in order to manipulate people? Does that make you go back and go "Oh, that's better. He was an evil genius instead of an evil idiot.""

• (Bill Maher) "I think you guys might have been right about the big picture, and I'm not above saying, you know what, maybe I was wrong. Okay. But on the other half of it, why the incompetence? Why was this war conducted so badly from the beginning? And you have to admit that cost lives. And my theory is because Republicans are sentimentalists. Because you guys have such rose-colored glasses about America that you thought as soon as we showed up in Iraq, they'd be going, 'Freedom. Americans.' And that's why we didn't need armor on the tanks because they'd be giving us flowers and chocolates and nylons."

• (Bill Maher) "New Rule: The next time Steve Fossett tries to fly something around the world, shoot him down."

• (Gore Vidal) "We have to move out, not on. We have no business there. We didn't care before what Iraq became and we don't care now."

• (Bill Maher) "You can find me on Facebook, on Twitter -- and all that s***."

• (Bill Maher) "I want to see riots. I want to see the kind of riots where cab drivers are afraid to pick up white people. I want to see this guy."
• (Bill Maher) "You stayed up all night making that papier mache mask of Dick Cheney. Good. Now light it on fire and torch the nearest Gap. You're not going to make the evening news with candle light vigils. Pick up a trash can and throw it through the window of a Starbucks."

• (Tucker Carlson) "Maybe in fact it was better to have Saddam in there. Maybe Saddam, as bad as he was; was not the worst we could get. Maybe chaos was the worst we could get. That's the truth."

• (Bill Maher) "Saddam Hussein is Hitler like Oasis was The Beatles."

• (Bill Maher) "New rule: Anyone who is elected mayor of a place called "Sin City" is allowed to be a drunk."

• (Al Franken) "I love this "culture of life" stuff that comes out of the Christian right. But do you hear anything about the genocide that's going on in Darfur?"

• (Bill Maher) "Meanwhile, three of the Republican candidates have said God called them to be president. But, seriously, if God really did call all three to run for president, isn't he just f***ing with two of them?"

• (Bill Maher) "We're not running our country down when we criticize it. We're trying to make it better."

• (Bill Maher) "White people have always shown their superiority over blacks with their feet, moving out of black neighborhoods with the fear that their kids will turn into one of them. And now, through the magic of MTV, damned if it didn't turn out that way."

• (George Carlin) "Finally someone stood up to the little oil pimp. This guy who somehow has managed to combine Yale intellectualism with the American cowboy myth and be completely inauthentic in both roles. That's what I see in Bush. He's an empty suit."

• (Bill Maher) "New Rule: Stop whining about the French. It takes a lot of guts to stand up to the Bush administration and that's more than I can say about the Democrats."

• (Bill Maher) "New Rule: You can't send the National Guard to Iraq and then claim it's still here. The helicopters, the humvees, the men -- like Dorothy and Toto, they're not in Kansas anymore. Sorry, Mr. President, but the last documented case of a National Guardsman able to be in two places at one time -- was you."

• (George Carlin) "Jim, Jim, calm down, calm down. You began a sentence a little while ago with 'It shouldn't be a surprise'. It shouldn't be a surprise that rich, white men don't care about poor, black people, period. So they're not high on the list."
• (Jim Glassman) "George, I love you, George, but that's nonsense."
• (George Carlin) "I don't care if you love me or not. They're not high on the conscious or the subconscious list of those people how are in charge of things in this country, the owners. Forget these foolish elections. The owners of this country don't care about the poor, in general."
• (Jim Glassman) "The owners of this country? What is this, Karl Marx talking to me? The owners of this country are the voters of this country."
• (George Carlin) "No, you're wrong about that, my friend. You're absolutely wrong."
• (Jim Glassman) "Aren't the owners of this country are the voters of this country who elected George Bush?"
• (George Carlin) "No, no, they're not. Listen, these elections are a charade, they're a charade --"
• (Jim Glassman) "Oh, okay."
• (George Carlin) "I'll tell you, listen, just listen for a minute and learn a little something. Elections and politicians are in place in order to give Americans the ILLUSION that they have freedom of choice. You don't really have choice in this country."

• (Tucker Carlson) "I mean, look, no matter how you feel about Bush, watching him speak is difficult. It's like; it's like watching a drunk man cross an icy street."

• (Howard Dean) "I think the problem with the country is that we operate on a sickness model, not a wellness model. Basically, we treat people who become ill. What we don't do is do a very good job in keeping them healthy in the first place."

• (Kevin Costner) "You know, the great thing about Vietnam, if you can find one great thing about Vietnam, was that we have Vietnam to look back on. Vietnam serves a purpose. We have this gigantic window into our past history and why we find ourselves where we're at. That's the only good I can see that that war ever did for us. And we've ignored the lesson."
• (Bill Maher) "The key lesson to me of Vietnam is that you cannot outlast insurgents in their own country. This idea that when Bush says, "Well, we can't say we're going to pull out in six months because they'll only have to wait six months and a day." They'll wait a hundred years if they have to."
• (Gen. Wesley Clark) "Bill, the key lesson; the key lesson of Vietnam is that you've got to have a strategy that has a chance of success before you commit the lives of the men and women in uniform."

• (Bill Maher) "If I just sit here every Friday night and spout Bush administration talking points, that's not information or entertainment, it's Fox News."

• (Kurt Vonnegut) "I am not only from the richest country in the world, but the dumbest country in the world"

• (Andrew Sullivan) "The "culture of life," I might say, is a phrase invented by the last Pope. And what it meant was, you're opposed to death, in the death penalty, in war, in euthanasia and abortion. The Republicans decide, "Oh, we're a cafeteria. We'll take the abortion and euthanasia but we will launch wars" and we will; I mean, George Bush has signed more death warrants than any other human being in this country."

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