On Healthcare:

"That's how scared we are of the Republicans; it's like...we're winning by 20, and we're, like, oh, no, they got us now!" -Chris Rock

"That's basically what the opposition to healthcare was. It's just people kind of play-hating." -Chris Rock

"It took me a while to catch on that the tea-baggers, I think what they were really enraged at was that this was an entitlement program in their view that was going to disproportionately help minorities. I think that there was a racial element to the healthcare battle." -Bill Maher

"I mean, the problem with the Democrats, in a lot of ways, is they want to win a fight without taking a punch, you know? You've got to get hit to win. You want to really knock somebody out, you've got to get close enough for them to hit you before you can hit them" -Chris Rock

"If the average person really knew the discrepancy in the healthcare system, there'd be riots in the streets. Okay, they would burn this motherf**ker down." -Chris Rock

On Race:

"It seems the black people have to be exceptional to get what white people get being mediocre." -Chris Rock

"I don't know one black guy that hasn't thought his woman wasn't cheating on him and has found out really, she really was getting her hair done." -Chris Rock

On Relationships:

"I am closer to especially [David] Spade and [Adam] Sandler than pretty - I'm pretty - more comfortable with those two cats than any other people on earth." -Chris Rock

"Assholes can f**k up anything. And, if you're an asshole, sometimes you can asshole your way out of show business. Or you can asshole your way out of opportunity." -Chris Rock

"It's the same strippers that convince you to go to the champagne room [who] convince you to buy a f**kin' mortgage that f**ks up." -Chris Rock

On Movie Roles:

"I don't think people want to see me be funny as a fat black woman." -Chris Rock

"Oh, please. I have turned down several fat black women scripts. Some that have gone on to make money. But, I don't regret it for one day." -Chris Rock

On High School:

"I went to school with the kids from 'Jersey Shore,' pretty much." -Chris Rock

"I was a little guy, too, so even if I was white, I was probably going to get beat up." -Chris Rock

"Any school yard is pretty much like jail, you know? It's jail without the ass rape." -Chris Rock

On Food:

"Slow food is kind of the opposite of fast food... it's not about slow cooking necessarily. You can have slow 'fast food' in the sense that slow food means that you care about where it comes from." -Alice Waters

"I was a little intimidated by the French and about French cooking. And, even when I opened Chez Panisse, I was afraid to be in the kitchen at the beginning because I didn't know enough to do that." -Alice Waters

"I know that in America we'd rather have food that looked the right way than actually was the right way." -Bill Maher

"Somehow eating right got to be elitist." -Bill Maher

"I want to pay the real cost of the food. I know what it takes to grow it. I know what it takes to produce it and to serve it simply and right and in season. And I want to pay those people a real wage." -Alice Waters

"I have a little addiction to caramel corn that I didn't know was affecting me in the way it did as a child, and that I kind of crave it." -Alice Waters

"I'm the first one to say, you can't eat perfect all the time, because then you'll drive yourself crazy. Stress will kill you, the stress from not eating something good." -Bill Maher

On Music:

"We're not selling records anymore, so we might as well, you know, go Broadway." -Billie Joe Armstrong

"I use harsh language a lot just to sort of prove a point. It's like to use the English language against itself in a lot of ways." -Billie Joe Armstrong

On Pot:

"We were trying to be like the Cheech and Chong of punk rock for a while." -Billie Joe Armstrong

"I've said unabashedly that, you know, I owe a lot of the good ideas I've ever had in my life to pot." -Bill Maher

On Anarchy:

"When George Bush was creating this war and his war on terror, I thought there would be a lot more anarchy that was going to happen." -Billie Joe Armstrong

"It's frightening, because, you know, you see it, the rich people getting the benefits and the poor people getting the shaft, you know? And then the middle, they're not even being represented at all." -Billie Joe Armstrong

On Religion:

"I have kind of a fetish for the Bible a little bit." -Billie Joe Armstrong

"I think that's something ingrained into us, it's beaten into us as a society that we fear God." -Billie Joe Armstrong