Guests:Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank; Simon Johnson, economist; Jon Meacham, author; M.I.A, recording artist

Maherisms

We've got to worship principles, not people.  Bill Maher

In state parks, you can now carry a gun. So, when you're buried under a mountain of debt, now at least you have a scenic place to go kill yourself.  Bill Maher

We're $26 billion in the hole. I don't want to say it's bad, but today Mexico announced they're building a border fence.  Bill Maher

On the Financial Crises

I don't know if we're ever going to move our country to a place where we're going to have a sound financial footing as long as people think happiness springs only and eternally from money.  Bill Maher

We also should be looking at [the global financial crisis] as the greatest of opportunities. Crisis brings the opportunities to change.  Muhammad Yunus

We need micro-finance now in America.  Jon Meacham

I'm not against profit; this is good. But, at the same time, there should be a business on the basis of the selflessness, so that I do business to make the world change, to impact on people's lives.  Muhammad Yunus

On Dick Cheney

I think it's a bad thing that the media doesn't have a bullshit meter.  Bill Maher.

Bobby Jindal has a not-enough-oxygen-to-the-brain problem already.  Dan Savage

Cheney is fighting, in a way, not with Obama, but with his former president, because a lot of the issues that he's arguing about are, in fact, second-term Bush initiatives.  Jon Meacham

Eight years of Bush Administration was enough for the whole world.  Muhammad Yunus

On Gitmo

Wartime presidents commit great sins, and I think [Obama] is willing to do that.  Jon Meacham

On Obama

You do not get to be President of the United States when you're 46 years old and you're a black guy, without being a very hardball, hardcore, practical politician.
 Jon Meacham

When Spider-Man catches someone robbing a bank, he punches their nuts through an armored car. Whereas, Obama writes them a check.  Bill Maher

On Religion

American presidents didn't used to be so openly religious and so politically religious.  Simon Johnson

I think [Obama's] sense is that the American religious tradition includes religious freedom. And a key element of religious freedom is the ability to be unreligious and non-religious.  Jon Meacham

I can't think of a character who is less reliable as a role model than the God of the Old Testament.  Bill Maher

I think that Obama...has, in fact, helped us move beyond a kind of public piety.
 Jon Meacham