Bill Maher

Bill Maher is a comedian and host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. He also works as a comedian and actor.

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Bill Maher
stated on February 10, 2016 an essay in The Hollywood Reporter:

"Why are Muslim armies so useless against ISIS? ... There are 20,000 or 30,000 (ISIS fighters). The countries surrounding ISIS have armies totaling 5 million people."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 22, 2016

Bill Maher
stated on October 2, 2015 an episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":

"15 years ago, cancer drugs cost an average of $10,000 a year. Now it’s $10,000 a month."

By Lauren Carroll • December 2, 2015

Bill Maher
stated on April 17, 2015 his monologue on "Real Time":

"More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013."

By Katie Sanders • April 23, 2015

Bill Maher
stated on June 13, 2014 a "Real Time with Bill Maher" episode:

"There are 278 Republicans in Congress. (With Eric Cantor's defeat), they are now all Christian and all white except for one black senator, who was appointed."

By Katie Sanders • June 18, 2014

Bill Maher
stated on May 23, 2014 in comments on "Real Time with Bill Maher":

"We're fifth in the world (in executions), behind China, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia."

By Aaron Sharockman • June 3, 2014

Bill Maher
stated on October 25, 2013 comments on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":

The average fast food worker is 29, and most fast food workers "are on some form of public assistance."

By Katie Sanders • November 4, 2013

Bill Maher
stated on June 21, 2013 a roundtable section of the HBO show "Real Time with Bill Maher":

If it is enacted, the Senate immigration bill is "going to make the Border Patrol bigger than the FBI -- you could put one agent every 250 feet."

By Louis Jacobson • July 1, 2013

Bill Maher
stated on April 15, 2011 an episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":

Under a proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, people on Medicare will only have $15,000 from the federal government to spend on their health care.

By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2011

Bill Maher
stated on September 14, 2010 an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live":

"Do you know that we have pipes carrying natural gas in this country that are made of wood? I'm not joking."

By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2010

Bill Maher
stated on May 2, 2010 an interview on ABC News' 'This Week':

"Brazil got off oil in the last 30 years."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 2, 2010

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Rick Santorum
stated on March 31, 2017 a conversation on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":

"The EPA director under Obama said the Clean Power Initiative would have no effect on man-made CO2 emissions. That's what she said. Go look it up."

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2017