Maher, in response to his own question of why terrorists hate the West, said, "When you capture one, or when the leave a note, you know what they say? Because you're there. Because you're in Muslim lands. I have a crazy idea, why don't we get out of Muslim lands?"

He added, "if they watched the Republican debate, on tuesday night, that's exactly what they saw. the biggest cheers were for republicans who got up there and said we have to kick a*s militarily. this nonsensical argument…let's show a little bit of the debate. This is the debate that Ron Paul — he actually, good for Rand Paul, he sounded a little like his father, and that's what we loved about him at the beginning."