Rush Limbaugh quotes

“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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“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?”

— Rush Limbaugh

“Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“If you commit a crime, you're guilty.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“I don't need equal time, I am equal time!”

— Rush Limbaugh

“For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“Poverty is not the root cause of crime.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Rush Limbaugh

“The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“Obama and the Democrats are not focused on the moderates. They're focused on getting their base out, and they're trying to expand that base by forming sympathetic, empathetic alliances with the downtrodden, and there are a lot of downtrodden because Obama has made them that way via his policies.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“In NFL preseason, the coaches don't use 10% of the playbook. They don't game plan. They do nothing. They don't give anything away for the regular season. They try to get everybody safely through it without anybody getting hurt.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Rush Limbaugh

“If Romney would go ideological in explaining Obama, it would help. We gotta stop the, 'He's a nice guy' stuff. Nice guys don't do what Obama is doing. Nice guys don't say and do and act the way Obama is saying, doing, and acting.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“I have to tell you, every day is a roller coaster.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“Football is like life and I know life.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?”

— Rush Limbaugh

“Obama just announced Americans don't consider themselves victims, or entitled. Actually, the vast majority of Obama supporters believe exactly that. They believe exactly that.”

— Rush Limbaugh