Synopsis
On Bush
At the press conference, they asked [Bush] about the fact that gas is approaching $4.00. You know what Bush said? He said, and I quote: "That's interesting. I hadn't heard that." See, Bush thinks a news conference is where the reporters give him the news. Bill Maher
On Experience
You know, JFK absolutely energized my generation. But, JFK had a tough time getting those changes made in Washington, D.C. Government -- and I've been in it for 31 years -- it's serious business. It's difficult. And you have to know how to bring about change. Gov. Ed Rendell
The key question really is how useful experience is, because this country's history is replete with successful presidents who weren't that experienced. I mean, actually, Barack Obama has more national experience than Abe Lincoln had when he became president. Shashi Tharoor
On The Surge
America bribed these people to stop killing us. That's why we have this whatever success the surge has had, is because the Sunnis who were killing us, we bribed them to stop. Bill Maher
The fact of the matter is, that if the troops had been withdrawn on the timetable of any of the Democratic Party's nominees or candidates, I mean, or spokespeople, or Cindy Sheehan or anyone else, Al Qaeda would have been able to say, "We drove the United States out of a keystone country in the Arab and Muslim world, a chokepoint of the world economy on the Gulf, and a country to which we had made innumerable pledges, where we are there under a United Nations mandate for reconstruction". Christopher Hitchens
Episode 122
Premiered Feb. 29, 2008
