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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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 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

Rick Santorum
stated on March 31, 2017 in 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

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