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Real Time with Bill Maher

episode 56
Premiering August 19, 2005
Guests: Paul Hackett, Asa Hutchinson, Kellyanne Conway and Chris Rock.

On Cindy Sheehan

"Here's a lady who's lost her son in Iraq, and I think she's entitled to voice her opinion on this war. And I think she's entitled to do it in just about any civil manner that she wants to. And if that's camping out in front of George Bush while he's on vacation, that's okay by me. And I think anybody who takes potshots at her is missing the point." – Paul Hackett

On Bush

"You called Bush a chicken-hawk." – Bill Maher

"Meant it. Stand by it. Say it again. And I don't know why that's such a big excitement. I mean, the facts are the facts." – Paul Hackett

On Iraq

"Are there Iraqi guys who are willing to stand up to this insurgency? Because obviously the insurgents are the zealots. They're the guys who are willing to do anything to win. It takes a lot to stand up to that. Are there Iraqi patriots? Do they have their John Adam's and their George Washington's over there who are going to do that?" – Bill Maher

"But you have been reading about what's going on with the writing of the constitution, and the fact that women may be taking a giant step backward in Iraq, because the theocrats may very well be taking over. For example, in the southern city of Basrah, I read that the police department is really just... the religious belief. Like in Saudi Arabia. They've just been enforcing the Shiite mentality, which is that, you know, any woman who wears makeup gets her head cut off. Women are not advancing in Iraq." – Bill Maher

"It took our country resistance against a theocrats, many times, when we were developing our own constitution. Our constitution was not written and ratified overnight. We have to be patient with these things. You don't want it written on a piece of toilet paper. It's going to take some time. It's an effort." – Kellyanne Conway

"Border security is important. But whenever you look at what's happened in Iraq today, in the interim government, women had a major role in the interim government. They continue to do so, they're part of the national assembly. They didn't have those prerogatives previously. We don't know what's going to come out in the constitution, they're going through a struggling process. And I think it's a little bit early to pre-judge what's going to happen in that." – Asa Hutchinson

On Kerry

"He did, Bill. He voted against the 87 billion, and that was part of the package. He voted for the war, but he wanted them to be naked running through the mountains, I guess. Because then he voted against the body armor." – Kellyanne Conway

On Racial Profiling

"I mean, maybe one day we will live in a more optimum world where terrorists come in every color of the rainbow. But the truth is, now they don't. I mean, the people who are trying to get us are young Muslim men, period." – Bill Maher

On Activist Judges

"The problem is, we do not want the judges doing things like abolishing the Pledge of Allegiance, changing the definition of marriage, throwing the Boy Scouts out of the public schools. And what we think is that congress should pass a law, taking away from the federal courts, jurisdiction over those areas where we don't trust them. And those are three good areas where we simply do not trust them." – Phyllis Schlafly

"But aren't judges supposed to be unelected and unaccountable? Isn't the constitution designed so that one of our branches of government is unaccountable to the public? Wasn't one of the things that the founders feared the most, that the public would have too much say?" – Bill Maher

"If we overturn Roe v. Wade, won't there be more back alley abortions, again? I mean, how many kids can Angelina Jolie adopt?" – Bill Maher

On Bush's Vacation

"I think the more he's away, the less bad he can do." – Chris Rock




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