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“He’s [John Kerry] running against the worst President in the history of the United States! [audience applause] And that’s not hyperbole. That’s not hyperbole. The environment, the demonization of gays, the repression of black voters, the favoritism of Halliburton, this unending war....We can’t consume everybody’s life with this fear when we’ve been attacked twice in twenty years.”

Actor/comedian Richard Belzer, who plays “Detective John Munch” on NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, October 29.
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"This is a big heist, this is a big heist. The right wing is in power, the bankers are screwing everyone — the oil companies, Halliburton — this is no f---ing mystery....It started with Reagan crushing the poor, crushing the unions, rewarding people, putting them into heads of certain departments of the government and then disassembling those departments because they have contempt for the government."

— Actor/comedian Richard Belzer on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on January 25, reacting to a comment that $80 billion of Iraq war spending is unaccounted for.
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"We’ve been redefined for seven years now as a war-mongering, far-right, intolerant nation who’s raping our own atmosphere and demonizing the poor and letting the banks rob us blind. I think if — any incremental move away from that would be a godsend. And I think Obama will, at the very least, put the brakes on this madness and in some ways heal it....I think the rest of the world, if they see that America elects a man of color I think they’ll breathe a big sigh of relief and not think that we’re this war-mongering, rich white guy country."

— Actor/comedian Richard Belzer on FNC’s Geraldo At Large, March 2.
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