Season 7, Episode 10 - "May 1, 2009"
1 May, 2009
Guests: Fareed Zakaria, journalist; Richard Engel, news correspondent; Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA); David Kessler, former FDA chief On The Supreme Court We will die, many of us, being haunted by Antonin Scalia's bigotry being practiced on the U.S. Supreme Court. – Rep. Barney Frank The Supreme Court is right now very substantially to the right of the country because of 30 years of essentially Republican domination of the executive branch. – Fareed Zakaria Generally, what the courts can do is to stop you from doing bad things. They can't make you do good things. – Rep. Barney Frank On Lawyers I'm not a lawyer, but I know this much: the law is what they make up as they go along. – Bill Maher On Political Parties Arlen Specter switching sides was like Dylan going electric. – Bill Maher I want to control the major Democratic Party. If people think we're too liberal, let them start the second party. – Rep. Barney Frank The 'Party of Lincoln' is becoming the 'Party of Shrinkin' at this point. – Bill Maher We do need two parties. I think five or ten would be better, but we need at least two. – Bill Maher On the Middle East One of the things America could learn from Israel is how not to totally panic in the face of what you think is a threat. – Rep. Barney Frank If there are members of the Taliban that want to negotiate and don't want to fight anymore, that should be absolutely encouraged. – Dr. Howard Dean [Teddy] Roosevelt also showed that you could be pro-nature and still kill a lot of animals. – Randy Cohen How come we can't be friends with Cuba, but we're friends with a country [Saudi Arabia] that marries an eight-year-old girl? – Bill Maher As a gay Jew, going to Afghanistan under the Taliban would be very low on my list. – Rep. Barney Frank A lot of people in the Middle East actually do think that the president is Muslim. – Richard Engel The Muslims and Arabs who live [in the U.S.] are assimilated; they're pro-American. That is the strength that has kept us safe. – Fareed Zakaria
