On Healthcare:

"If Nancy Pelosi gets her way and the Democrats get the votes, by this time next week, we will be living in a world where Americans can buy health insurance from an insurance company." -Bill Maher

"I'm not happy with the [healthcare] bill. I'm not going to celebrate it. But, it's a start." -Rep. Dennis Kucinich

"I got a promise that [President Obama] would take some of my constituents on Air Force One to Canada to be able to get better healthcare." -Rep. Dennis Kucinich

"We need to have a whole new discussion about healthcare in America. And the only way we're going to do that is to pass this bill." -Rep. Dennis Kucinich

"Insurance companies make money not providing healthcare. That's the model we're going to be dealing with. That's why, after this bill passes, we're going to have to start the next day to get a public option, to get changes and to give the public more control over this for-profit system." -Rep. Dennis Kucinich

"The legitimacy of government itself is under attack." -Rep. Dennis Kucinich

"What we're really fighting for is for democracy, to make sure that government is there to do for people collectively what they don't and can't do for themselves individually." -Rep. Dennis Kucinich

"We have so much fear in America on all sides that people are not able to make rational decisions about what's in their own interest. And part of the problem in what we face today in America is to be able to shake the fear that is really causing America's confidence in itself to be undermined." -Rep. Dennis Kucinich

"I come from a city that has universal healthcare. I'm not dealing with this in the abstract...we have a public option, a public plan. We're bringing down costs." -Myr. Gavin Newsom

"You know what a lot of Americans are worried about? That this bill is going to make America look like San Francisco." -Stephen Moore

"The notion that this is somehow socialized medicine is laughable." -Myr. Gavin Newsom

"I'm a cancer survivor, I know no one who has been seriously ill who does not think that the insurance companies need to be way more regulated than they are now." -Melinda Henneberger

"I'd say, precisely because healthcare is so important, because it's a matter of life and death, this is the last industry we want to have run by the government." -Stephen Moore

"[The healthcare bill] may save lives, but it isn't going to save money. I mean, every single entitlement program we've ever had has gone, you know, completely over budget." -Stephen Moore

"I don't understand why not being for this bill is the fiscally irresponsible thing." -Bill Maher

"You ever watch 'House' or 'Grey's Anatomy'? It's like ten or twelve doctors for just you. All they do is treat you, and then they go home and f**k each other and think about you. That's the fantasy." -Bill Maher

On Wall Street Regulation:

"If people make bad decisions at Goldman Sachs or CitiBank, they should face the punishment. The taxpayer shouldn't be providing a big safety net for Wall Street firms." -Stephen Moore

"Nothing in this country can happen unless you're retiring or retired." -Bill Maher

"The estimate is one million dollars per [legislative] member the banking lobbyists have invested into derailing the new regulatory package." -Myr. Gavin Newsom

On Humanatarianism:

"A third of the world right now doesn't have access to clean drinking water." -Emile Hirsch

"If you write your congress people, and if you actually email these people, they don't get a lot of people giving them attention in a weird - like, they're happy when you write them. They do pay a lot of attention to it." -Emile Hirsch

On Mountain Climbing:

"It's a natural high you get. When you get up that high, the altitude starts to take you places." -Emile Hirsch

"I once climbed the Beverly Hills." -Bill Maher

On The Catholic Church:

"I would say that it was very disappointing to me as a practicing Catholic that [the sex abuse scandal] was very much seen as just an American problem." -Melinda Henneberger

"I think, you know, from sea to shining sea in the United States of America, every time the bishops - my bishops - had a chance to protect the children or protect their own derrieres, they did not make the right call." -Melinda Henneberger

"Come on, if this [scandal involved] a chain of daycare centers they would have rolled it up and there'd be hundreds of people in jail. The only reason why they're not is because it's religion." -Bill Maher

"This is having a profoundly significant impact on this Church, and a lot of folks are rightly questioning this - quote/unquote - 'wall of silence' as it's reflected. And so I do think there needs to be accountability and culpability." -Myr. Gavin Newsom

"Everything, including the resurrection, is penciled in by humans. The Church was not celibate for, like, a thousand years. And then they changed it." -Bill Maher

"I am not in the Catholic Church because I believe in the perfection of the human people who run the institution; I'm there because I like it." -Melinda Henneberger

"If the Catholic Church could survive the Spanish Inquisition, it can survive this sex scandal." -Stephen Moore

On Love:

"Tomorrow is the first day of spring. And this is the time of year when we're reminded that love is like a Toyota. It can't be stopped." -Bill Maher

"True love is like a salesman at Home Depot. It only comes along once or twice in a lifetime." -Bill Maher