54 Quotes & Sayings By Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh was born into a military family, raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a veteran of the US Army and a graduate of Saint Vincent College with a degree in English Literature. While attending college, he became a disc jockey for several radio stations. In 1965, he began his career as a talk radio host on WHB in Kansas City, Missouri Read more

In 1985, Limbaugh was hired by Westwood One to host a nationally syndicated talk show. In addition to his syndicated radio show, Limbaugh has written nine books and produces a weekly political commentary on his website.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side...
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Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom. Rush Limbaugh
I must be honest. I can only read so many...
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I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke. Rush Limbaugh
I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not a...
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I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement, especially walking behind it. Rush Limbaugh
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He's one fry short of a Happy Meal. Rush Limbaugh
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Militant feminists are pro‐choice because it’s their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men. Rush Limbaugh
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I'm pro-choice. But I hope that choice will be life. Rush Limbaugh
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No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity. Rush Limbaugh
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There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media. Rush Limbaugh
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The attitude of the Democrat Party is that wherever there are Republicans they are so bad, they are so discriminatory, they are so racist, they're so bigoted, they're just such reprobates that we can't afford to let them have any say whatsoever in what's happening. Rush Limbaugh
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There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and should have been saying 'I hope this guy fails' right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along. Rush Limbaugh
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Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American people for his agenda. Obamacare has wiped that out. It really has. Rush Limbaugh
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Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country. Rush Limbaugh
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Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist. Rush Limbaugh
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It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned. Rush Limbaugh
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One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool. Rush Limbaugh
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No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is. Rush Limbaugh
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Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves. Rush Limbaugh
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I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher's class? No. No. It doesn't happen, 'cause there's no thought of getting along. Rush Limbaugh
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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? Rush Limbaugh
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The way the Democrats go about seeking equality is to lower people at the top. Rush Limbaugh
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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
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George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant. Rush Limbaugh
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Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism. Rush Limbaugh
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Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream. Rush Limbaugh
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That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against. Rush Limbaugh
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It's amazing when you see something on T.V. for years and then you go and see it in person. It's perspective is all different. Rush Limbaugh
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Character matters leadership descends from character. Rush Limbaugh
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The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue. Rush Limbaugh
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There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country. Rush Limbaugh
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Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters. Rush Limbaugh
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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. Rush Limbaugh
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Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It's about statism. It's about expanding the government. It's about control over the population. It is about everything but health care. Rush Limbaugh
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Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is. Rush Limbaugh
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I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object of sympathy. I think people feel he's a victim, he portrays himself as a victim of America; he gets sympathy that way. Rush Limbaugh
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Try to always stay focused on the objectives that are possible and the positive - and on having fun outside of the stuff that's going on in Washington. Rush Limbaugh
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I'm not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It's a positive agenda. Rush Limbaugh
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The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived. Rush Limbaugh
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I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt. Rush Limbaugh
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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? Rush Limbaugh
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There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them. Rush Limbaugh
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You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am. Rush Limbaugh
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One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network. Rush Limbaugh
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Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics. Rush Limbaugh
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Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity. Rush Limbaugh
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You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one. Rush Limbaugh
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Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn't allow or disallow. The president can't buy or purchase. Rush Limbaugh
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I reject most conventional wisdom. Rush Limbaugh
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Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live. Rush Limbaugh
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Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept. Rush Limbaugh
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When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy. Rush Limbaugh
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Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society. Rush Limbaugh
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The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were. Rush Limbaugh
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The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either. Rush Limbaugh