Quotes by 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.
• We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It's no more complicated than that.
• There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
• There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.
• 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.
• The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama.
• The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
• The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.
• 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.
• The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.
• 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.
• Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
• 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?
• Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule.
• Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.
• 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.
• No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
• Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.
• 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.
• Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.
• When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.
• 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?
• You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.
• You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
• 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.
• Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
• Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.
• Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?
• Compassion is no substitute for justice.
• Character matters; leadership descends from character.
• 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.
• Football is like life and I know life.
• Government stimulates the democrat party.
• 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.
• 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.
• Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
• If you commit a crime, you're guilty.
• Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.
• If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
• 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.
• 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.
• I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.
• I don't need equal time, I am equal time!
• Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.