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Real Time with Bill Maher

episode 57
Premiering August 26, 2005
Guests: Cindy Sheehan, Gov. Mike Huckabee, Dan Savage, Eve Ensler and Kinky Friedman.

On Camp Casey

"Bill, this isn't for me. It's in honor of our children who have already been killed. But there's millions of people in harm's way in Iraq. And we need to get our military out of there. We need to secure the country. And, you know, I was only the spark that started off this fire of the peace movement. And if I wanted to call it off today, I couldn't even do it. It's just got a momentum and a life of its own. It's organic and it's living. And like I said earlier, we are going to stop this war." – Cindy Sheehan

"Nobody likes this war. Nobody thinks it's a wonderful thing. But let's be real clear that I think we don't want to make decisions about foreign policy, national policy and the security of a country simply based on the grief of a mother." – Gov. Mike Huckabee

"What the Republican right slime machine refuses to recognize is, Cindy Sheehan, as an American citizen, has an absolute right to petition her government for redress of grievances, and ask George Bush a goddamn question. He's not the Pope. He's not God. He's not the king. He's the president, and he should be asked tough questions." – Dan Savage


On Gay Marriage

"If a couple splits up, a gay couple, the same rules apply as they would to heterosexual couples, which is kind of big, because I'm sure you would say this is another 'blue state ruling from activist judges that normalizes the gay lifestyle,' and so forth. But study after study does show that the children of gay couples are no different, no less stable, no less normal than any other couple. And when you look at reality TV and you see Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston, and you see the Osbournes, you know, I just think if I was a kid, I'd rather grow up with Rosie O'Donnell than Bobby Brown." – Bill Maher

"I have a seven-year-old adopted son with my partner of ten - almost 11 - years. If I were to drop dead tomorrow, most of the property is mine, my partner would inherit very little of it because of the tax laws that disfavor him because he's not my legal spouse. And he would be impoverished, and also raising this child and the next one that we're adopting. So if you believe in protecting children, I think you should be for gay marriage." – Dan Savage


On Health

"Don't you think, though, we need to be focused more on health than appearance? And I think that sometimes Americans have become obsessed with being skinny rather than really being concerned about being healthy. And being healthy will mean that you're not overweight." – Gov. Mike Huckabee

"I interviewed women who would say that the most important thing in their life was losing weight. They weren't thinking about the eradication of reproductive rights; they weren't thinking about violence against women; they weren't thinking about health; they weren't thinking about the war." – Eve Ensler


On Bush's Vacation

"If you don't know who Karen Hughes is, she's the longtime advisor to President Bush, and she is the person now who is going to take on the job of Propaganda Czar to the Arab world. And when I heard that, I said, 'Who better than Dallas-based soccer mom Karen Hughes! Who are the Muslims going to listen to more than someone like her? Who has more feel in their bones for how Muslim people think? Does Bush know more than three people?" – Bill Maher




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