Quotes & Jokes by Bill Maher / page 15
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
George Bush says, "Gore's book needs a lot of explaining." Of course, Bush says that about every book.
Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.
Face the fact that there's only one sure-fire way to erase credit card debt. By picking up a big, shiny pair of scissors and cutting your wife in half.
Only cowards push a button from thousands of miles away, or tens of thousands of feet up, to kill people who can't possibly fight back.
I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.
A group of Cuban Americans denounced the Castro government as a fascist regime that monitors and scrutinized its citizens' everyday existence. And then they excused themselves to go watch "Big Brother".
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.
The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.
Nobody sees people as people. It's all how they relate to my little group.