Maherisms:

"The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: At some point, a pit bull does stop whining." -Bill Maher

"America loves guns so much, we don't even know when we're using it as a metaphor." -Bill Maher

"America, while we were away, fell in love with a homeless drug addict with a golden voice. No, not Amy Winehouse. Ted Williams!" -Bill Maher

On The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau:

"By golly, we got the [Consumer Financial Protection Bureau] through, and it is incredibly strong. It's got the tools. We can actually make some changes." -Elizabeth Warren

"This whole crisis started one bad mortgage at a time." -Elizabeth Warren

"The idea behind this [agency] is to...try to end the days of 'word barf,' you know, on the page." -Elizabeth Warren

"It's a crazy world out there on credit. And that has caused untold damage to millions of American families...there's got to be a cop on the beat. That's the role for government, and that's what this agency is going to do." -Elizabeth Warren

On The Shooting In Arizona:

"It is hard to make jokes when innocent people get hurt. But, I want to assure you all, Sarah Palin will be fine." -Bill Maher

"The President of the United States and Sarah Palin both made speeches on the same day. Obama came out against lunatics with guns. She gave the rebuttal." -Bill Maher

"There's everything to connect this to partisan politics and talk radio and cable TV except evidence. There's just none of that." -James Carville

"One side deserves more blame: the side that has been fighting for the right of Americans to have assault rifles." -Bill Maher

"I'd like to see a better linkage between the gun control stuff we have now and the 'crazy filter.' Because...it is too easy for mentally ill people to get guns." -Mike Murphy

"Maybe we can do something about crazy people getting guns. That would be a responsive thing to do." -James Carville

"To me, this is a very violent society, and it would be the patriotic thing to do to come out against that. To be against assault rifles seems to be the patriotic thing to do." -Bill Maher

"Is it not just purely selfish to advocate for a gun that is of no use except to hunt people?" -Bill Maher

"One of the things that has been really striking for me about this debate is, we have heard from the right, a view that actually America would be safer if more people had guns...I think that's a very dangerous notion." -Chrystia Freeland

"[The Republicans] are always asking the Muslims to denounce their extremists. And I agree with them. But they don't take that note and do it among their own. They don't denounce their own extremists." -Bill Maher

"The first argument I hear from Republicans is, 'the other side does it.' Which is, a, what a child says and, b, not true." -Bill Maher

"We do have this tendency to want to do the he-said-she-said. And if you want to talk about extremism on one side, you feel an obligation to talk about extremism on the other side...I think that we have to start being more willing to make the judgment, and say, actually, one side is angrier than the other." -Chrystia Freeland

"The progressive things that we should have been doing in that time, Canada has done and we have lagged behind." -Bill Maher

"It just seems like we are moving to a place where half the country is armed and half isn't." -Bill Maher

"I don't want to say anything to piss off the armed half, Bill, so I'm going to duck that answer." -Mike Murphy

"We don't have government healthcare. That's one reason why a crazy person gets a gun. Because, you know what? It's hard for a crazy person to get a job. So, therefore, it's hard for them to get healthcare in a country that doesn't have government healthcare." -Bill Maher

"It's really hard for a crazy person to get help, because our laws protect the privacy of crazy people who insist they're not crazy." -Mike Murphy

On "Two Americas"

"We are going into bonus season on Wall Street. And it is going to drive America crazy because the bonuses are going to be really, really high. Meanwhile, unemployment is close to 10%. It's two countries." -Chrystia Freeland

"The 'two Americas' makes you think it's 50-50. It's a 98-2 'two Americas.'" -James Carville

"Our middle class is what has defined America." -Elizabeth Warren

"Just the phrase "middle class" is sort of a relic from another era....We like to use that term because it would insulting not to, but they're really the working poor." -Bill Maher

"Americans don't like to talk about class, because it feels somehow unpatriotic and sort of anti the American dream." -Chrystia Freeland

"The Republicans want to repeal the healthcare bill. They actually call it in the title, the "job-killing healthcare bill." Which is so mature. I'm so glad the adults are back." -Bill Maher

"Name me one thing in modern American history that has killed more jobs than financial deregulation. You can't." -James Carville

"Obama and the Republicans got together and they passed this bill where he gave them the tax cuts for the rich people and everybody else and he got more spending, because they have a common enemy: economists." -Bill Maher

On Canada:

"It is interesting to look at Canada and see, as you said earlier, the things that do work there and still those results and facts are ignored." -Martin Short

"Canada is heaven for the Elizabeth Warrens of the world because it has banking regulation. That's the big difference. It didn't have a financial crisis and the government didn't have to bail out the banks." -Chrystia Freeland