Maherisms:

"The financial package is going through. [Obama] got healthcare. He got that nuclear weapons treaty. You know what? He's President 'B-Rocks!' He's on a roll. And he's taunting his critics. His new slogan is 'Change You Can Suck On.'" -Bill Maher

On Religion:

"Pope Benedict this week - I applaud him. He did something people have been asking him to do for quite a while now. He met privately with sex abuse victims. And afterwards, they said they were 'touched.'" -Bill Maher

"We don't really have medical ethics in this country, in this world, western world." -Dr. Jack Kevorkian

"Religion kind of - it alters your thinking ability. You sacrifice your reasoning power." -Dr. Jack Kevorkian

On Doctors:

"It's fear that controls us in this country, in this world. We're afraid to lose our reputation. We're afraid to lose our raise. We're going to lose something. They threaten us ultimately with prison, and that scares the hell out of everybody. That's why doctors are cowards. The reason they're cowards, in my opinion, is they know what's right and won't do it." -Dr. Jack Kevorkian

"I didn't do this to kill anybody. I didn't do this basically to really help anybody. I did it because it's my duty as a physician. I did my duty! That's all." -Dr. Jack Kevorkian

On Immigration:

"I don't know what the big deal is. I read it today. They have 450,000 illegal immigrants, they say, in Arizona. In California, we have that many at a Dodger game." -Bill Maher

"This cuts across both parties. It's not just Republicans are anti-immigrant and Democrats pro-immigrant. There are plenty of pro-immigrant Republicans as well." -Matthew Continetti

"The country is changing and a lot of people are very unhappy about it. There are people in this country who regret the outcome of the Civil War, and they want to insist that America be a place that's welcoming only white people who are straight and born-again Christian, and male, and preferably rich. And that's not the America that they see when they open their eyes and look around." -Rep. Alan Grayson

"This is the death rattle of racism in this country. That's why you're seeing it in Arizona. Why is it in Arizona? Because Arizona is ten or 15 years away from being a majority minority state." -Rep. Alan Grayson

"We're in a globalized economy and we feel like just about everything is out of our control. And there's a sense for the first time that America's leadership position is being challenged. And this adds to a tremendous sense of insecurity." -Susan Eisenhower

"I think the majority of America are inclusive. They are tolerant." -Matthew Continetti

On Cyber Security:

"The Obama Administration has no policy and no plan to defend America from cyber attack." -Richard Clarke

"How about before our military and other militaries get too carried away in cyberspace, how about we have a little discussion in this democracy, in the Congress, about whether or not this is a good idea?" -Richard Clarke

"Obama was off the other day signing a nuclear arms treaty, you know, controlling weapons that were created 50 years ago. How about we think about maybe arms control to worry about the weapons that are currently being used every day to hack into companies, into bank accounts. There's no arms control going on there. And there ought to be." -Richard Clarke

On Offending Islam:

"There's a small, extreme, radical part of the Islamic world that looks for insults by those of us who are not Muslims to justify their war against the rest of us. That's all this is. They don't care about cartoons any more than they care about anything else. They care about finding justification for blowing up innocent people." -Richard Clarke

On Moderate Republicans:

"What I think is absolutely stunning about what's going on right now, where are the elder statesmen of the [Republican] party and why aren't they standing up and insisting that this party take a more constructive view? You know, anger is not a public policy prescription." -Susan Eisenhower

"Anybody who is a moderate Republican today is going to get primaried, and is going to lose. And that's what you're seeing right now in Florida. That's the way it is. You know, [Justice John Paul] Stevens is the last of a dying breed. And, you know - the same way that there's very few people who use their middle name who aren't serial killers - there are very few moderate Republicans." -Rep. Alan Grayson

"You know who is really a moderate Republican by '70s standards? Barack Obama." -Bill Maher

On Financial Regulation:

"I'm not an economist, but I do understand the phrase, 'too big to fail,' which means banks are just too big." -Bill Maher

"I think one of the reasons why Obama and the Democrats are reluctant to break up the banks is they get a lot of corporate funds from them." -Matthew Continetti

"Now, Sherrod Brown and Ted Kaufman, two Democrats, are going to offer an amendment to this bill next week to break up the banks. I think if Republicans want to get serious with their populist rhetoric, they would support that amendment." -Matthew Continetti

On 'The Persecution of Sarah Palin':

"What I talk about in my book is how the media treated Palin during the campaign, those eight weeks between her nomination and the election. And there they misreported a lot of stories, and they held her to a standard that they never would hold any other politician. It was unique." -Matthew Continetti

"To think that the media focuses on historical events and not entertainment, you're not watching the American media." -Richard Clarke

"[Sarah Palin] is going all around the country now telling people to 'reload.' To 'reload.' She's instigating that kind of thinking all around the country. She's trying to make fascism fashionable. And she gets away with it." -Rep. Alan Grayson

"All women want to see successful women get ahead, especially in politics, where we sorely need reasonable, sensible women. But, the truth is that she is being persecuted all the way to the bank." -Susan Eisenhower