Season 7, Episode 14 - "May 29, 2009"
29 May, 2009
Guests: Fmr. Ambassador John Bolton; Fmr. Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM); Hill Harper, actor; Michael Pollan, author and professor Maherisms That's how you know America is a great country -- when your Supreme Court justice has the same backstory as your lap dancers. – Bill Maher The last time Rush Limbaugh talked to a Hispanic woman, it was his maid getting him his drugs. – Bill Maher If I wanted to start my day depressed, I'd watch 'Fox and Friends.' – Bill Maher Americans will do anything to each other for money. – Bill Maher They say, 'If only we had a government as good as the people.' Unfortunately, we do. – Bill Maher Don't say we're all a faithful people…I'm a logical people. – Bill Maher On Food What happens on your plate represents your most important engagement with the natural world, and the biggest impact you have on climate change. – Michael Pollan We learn how to make food that never dies. – Michael Pollan If you had six months to live, you'd eat a Twinkie...and, of course, if you ate Twinkies, you'd have six months to live. – Bill Maher [to Michael Pollan] By and large, we're eating sick animals... If the whole world ate as much meat as we do…we will need 2.3 more worlds to feed everybody this way. – Michael Pollan On Republicans Bush used the word 'evil' to describe anything he didn't like. – Michael Pollan I think the way for the Republican Party to regain power, which I think will come soon, is to be the party of ideas again. – Fmr. Ambassador John Bolton I think if [Reagan] was alive today, Rush Limbaugh would be trying to push him out of the Republican Party. – Bill Maher On North Korea I have faith in the North Koreans. I know that if you just give them enough time, they'll act like themselves. – Fmr. Ambassador John Bolton One of the risks of the North Koreans having nuclear capability is that, you know, Kim Jong Il will sell his mother for hard currency. – Fmr. Rep. Heather Wilson I think that the risk of proliferation of nuclear weapons is, in fact, the gravest threat that the United States and its friends and allies face in the world today. – Fmr. Ambassador John Bolton On Role Models I was fortunate enough to go to Brown and then on to Harvard Law School, because I had mentors in my life. – Hill Harper “I would suggest that all of us take pride in the fact that we have the Obamas in the White House. It's not just about black people/white people. – Hill Harper On The Supreme Court I hope that we have experienced, thoughtful people on the Supreme Court, irrespective of their race. – Fmr. Rep. Heather Wilson I think the problem with Judge Sotomayor's quotation about the Latina and the white male shows that she doesn't fully understand her judicial oath of office. – Fmr. Ambassador John Bolton The [California] Supreme Court here disappointed gay people, I think, who want to get married -- although I don't know why that's a disappointment. – Bill Maher
