Bill Maher Quotes

I think Ted Cruz is a very mean-spirited guy. You can see it from how the Republican Party responds to him.

A lot of people didn't like John McCain.

Trump shows no philosophical or moral compass and is so divisive that his negative ratings are sky high.

It's hard to be a national punch line unless lots of voters have soured on you.

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

I catch as much hell from the hard-core conservative people as I do the far left. The only difference is that the far right don't bring the hate to the table that the far left does. And that's my party. They just deal in so much hate. I mean the far left, not the Democrats, the far left really deal in hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.

I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.

… the most hated and calumniated man of his times.

[Senator Roscoe Conkling is:] A great fighter, inspired more by his hates than his loves.

The multitude, who require to be led, still hate their leaders.

The 2016 Presidential Campaign had the most bizarre and unusual occurrences in all my years of covering politics, I have never seen so much that was unique and unheard of. My favorite one was when the Republican Speaker of the House referred to the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, the "Devil Incarnate". And then the Society of Satan Worshippers put out a Press Release denying it.

The abundant paradox of the disreputable Mr. Trump is the way he entices so many others to shred their own reputations. His political existence is practically built on the willingness of the media to rise mechanically, predictably to the bait every time.

I spent 17 years inside an institution trying to effectively destroy it; can you imagine how popular I am in Brussels? I am the most hated figure that's ever been in that place. Every time I get up to speak, hundreds of people boo and jeer.

From the start of her leadership of the Conservative party in February 1975, Thatcher's style seemed shrill and uncompromising, and she became an easy object of mockery. When she left office nearly 16 years later, she was a widely recognised, but clearly still highly controversial, figure.

Trump is reviled around the world.

I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.

When people voted for Donald Trump, they knew he wasn't an angel.

Trump is kind of fascinating. I wish he was only seen in black-and-white 'cause he's like a character from the 1890s.

These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black.

I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge.

I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.

Democracy destroys the unity of the Rumanian nation, dividing it among political parties, making Rumanians hate one another, and thus exposing a divided people to the united congregation of Jewish power at a difficult time in the nation's history. This argument alone is so persuasive as to warrant the discarding of democracy in favor of anything that would ensure our unity - or life itself. For disunity means death.

The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.