Rush Limbaugh Quotes (87 Quotes)

Football is like life and I know life.

This one has some people scratching their heads because we've seemed to pick a nominee here that is oriented in some way to placating Democrats. What would you say to conservatives who have that fear

The culture war is between the winners and those who think they're losers who want to become winners. The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and then empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Gee. 'Til they got to there they were talking about me. I always worry if people are going to think I'm gay. Well, no, look. Fine wine, good cigars That's me. Understanding the finer things, confident, rather go out with the guys for dinner, doesn't care what people think Man, that's me.

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

I think you'll find when you look back 10 years from now that it will have been a great appointment,

I am addicted to prescription pain medication.

If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people - I'm serious, let the unskilled jobs, let the kinds of jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do - let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work

So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.

I want you to know I'm no role model. I refuse to let anyone think I'm doing something heroic here, something great here. I'm not a victim. I'm not going to portray myself as a victim. I take full responsibility for this problem.

just the idea that this disaster is looked upon as an opportunity for political gain by the left, and that particular political gain actually results in a decline of Western lifestyles, that's something that ought to sober everybody. I wouldn't be talking about this, I assure you, were it not for the fact that others on the left are out there making these asinine, ridiculous statements, and they have to be responded to and reacted to.

Government stimulates the democrat party.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?

I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.

Women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along

Help Mom There Are Liberals Under My Bed' is the title of the book,

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I'm not saying the Democrats don't want a strong economy. Don't misunderstand. They just don't want it now.

Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims.

The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.

Bigot-A person who wins an argument with a liberal.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.

Democrats don't have reasons for people to vote for them. They're just trying to gin up anger and resentment for their opposition. And it's just not working anymore.

Is this what feminism has become ... None of that was supposed to matter. That was supposed to turn off. ... All of it, especially the money, because you were to provide for yourself and you weren't supposed to be dependent.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

The great people at ESPN did not want to deal with this kind of reaction. The path of least resistance became for me to resign.

Some of these babes, I'm telling you, like the sexual harassment crowd, they're out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.

Even so, reports of his involvement echoed on conservative talk shows Thursday, generating outrage and disbelief. There's no question this is going to upset people on the right, ... There's no question the people on the right are going to say 'Wait a minute. Wait a minute The guy is doing pro bono work and helping gay activists'

We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It's no more complicated than that.

Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule.

The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down

We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed.

I can't believe that he actually chose to make a big deal about this, although I do think it was not spontaneous, ... Obviously, there was some strategy to this.

The word 'arrested,' this is semantics. This was all arranged in advance. I was voluntarily processed.

That's what everybody is hoping. The question is, why do we need to wait 10 years There are people that he could have nominated that we would know that about now. ... This one has people scratching their heads, because we've seemed to pick a nominee here that is oriented in some way to placating the Democrats.

basically a bunch of miserable, angry people exploiting death.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama.

Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

If you're working to make the playing field fair and level, you're working for the wrong reasons. Work to take the opportunities that arise and use your individual talents to excel at those opportunities.