All Time Famous Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Rush Limbaugh (1951-2021) was a prominent American conservative radio talk show host, political commentator, and author. Rising to fame in the late 1980s, his nationally syndicated show, “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” became a powerful platform for conservative ideas, reaching millions of listeners. Limbaugh was known for his outspoken and controversial opinions, advocating for conservative principles, limited government, and free-market capitalism. While praised for his impact on conservative discourse, his rhetoric also drew criticism for being divisive and inflammatory. Limbaugh’s legacy in shaping political dialogue in the United States continued until his death on February 17, 2021, after a battle with lung cancer.

Rush Limbaugh Quotes

1. “Character matters; leadership descends from character.”
— Rush Limbaugh

2. “America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.”
— Rush Limbaugh

3. “If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a Liberal angry, tell him the truth.”
— Rush Limbaugh

4. “The Democrats need poor, dependent people if they’re gonna stay in business. And if we don’t have enough poverty at home, we’ll import it. That’s what our open-borders policy is: It’s about importing poverty and importing the number of potential registered voters for the Democrat party.”
— Rush Limbaugh

5. “The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn’t provided, or if it doesn’t happen, then people feel cheated.”
— Rush Limbaugh

6. “They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?”
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7. “People who stand in the “middle-of-the-road” get run over.”
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8. “To change the media, you’re gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you’re gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.”
— Rush Limbaugh

9. “Compassion is no substitute for justice.”
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10. “No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.”
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11. “We had had mass immigration from the late 1800s all the way through the early 1900s to the 1920s, and we had to pause the immigration in order to for the new arrivals to assimilate, to become Americans, to learn English, for one thing. The one thing – or not the one; there are many different things.”
— Rush Limbaugh

12. “There’s no such thing as equality. No two people are the same. You will not have the same clothes.”
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13. “Innocent people never deserve to die no matter what.”
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14. “Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.”
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15. “There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that’s the media.”
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16. “Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.”
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17. “Do you know what the primary infrastructure of the United States actually is, ladies and gentlemen? It’s freedom – freedom and liberty – and that infrastructure certainly does need some rebuilding.”
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18. “I tell people don’t kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus – living fossils – so we will never forget what these people stood for.”
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19. “Throwing money at problems never solved anything!”
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20. “Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is ‘Wag the Dog.’ Everything is a structured deception.”
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21. “Poverty is not the root cause of crime.”
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22. “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.”
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23. “No two things are equal. No two people are equal. Nobody can guarantee equal outcomes unless everybody’s poor.”
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24. “The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.”
— Rush Limbaugh

25. “There’s a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.”
— Rush Limbaugh

26. “President Erdogan is aiming Turkey at a Sharia nation. That’s where he wants to go. He is a Sharia law, full-fledged, one percent Islamist.”
— Rush Limbaugh

27. “Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.”
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28. “How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant – and if you’re gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?”
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29. “The world’s biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn’t have food shortages.”
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30. “You do not have to incriminate yourself. But once you assert your innocence, and once you say you didn’t do anything wrong, you can’t then use the Fifth Amendment to say, ‘I’m not answering questions.’”
— Rush Limbaugh

31. “In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it’s three yards and a cloud of dust.”
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32. “I’m not going to assume liberals are stupid, as they do with conservatives. No, I’ll attribute it instead to more fraud and deceit.”
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33. “In my mind, there’s nothing wrong with it. I don’t instinctively know what’s wrong with it. There is a language of the ghetto. There is a language of the barrio. And it’s not good. There is an attitude. There is a behavior. There is a mindset and we wouldn’t anybody to be stuck in it.”
— Rush Limbaugh

34. “What we need to do is stop global warming; that’s the only way to stop your peanut butter cups from melting. And if that doesn’t do the trick, then put them in the fridge. Or better yet, eat them.”
— Rush Limbaugh

35. “Basic Economics 101. It’s the most complicated simple subject there is.”
— Rush Limbaugh

36. “Marriage is about raising children. That’s the purpose of the institution.”
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37. “I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals.”
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38. “Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don’t know what they’re talking about.”
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39. “Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas, the Clintons, and Kerrys of this world ever have. They were all on the wrong side of that debate.”
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40. “Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that’s about it, because everything they do fails.”
— Rush Limbaugh

41. “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

42. “The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They’re really ignorant.”
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43. “The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that’s how they want you.”
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44. “What incredible arrogance to believe that we limited human beings can destroy that which we cannot even begin to understand – much less create on our own – and that is earth and all of its glories.”
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45. “Not my political ideas. Conservatism didn’t buy this house. First and foremost I’m a businessman. My first goal is to attract the largest possible audience so I can charge confiscatory ad rates. I happen to have great entertainment skills, but that enables me to sell airtime.”
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46. “I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.”
— Rush Limbaugh

47. “This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in ‘American Idol’ than in any US election.”
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48. “If you’re going to run around, Ms. Pelosi, and you’re going to say Republicans like the war, then can we also assume that Democrats like killing babies? Put that in whatever it is you smoke, Ms. Pelosi, and have fun with it.”
— Rush Limbaugh

49. “I thought it was excellent, to tell you the truth.”
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50. “The press has met their Waterloo, and it’s Obama.”
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51. “What about feeling sorry for those who pay the taxes? Those who are people that no one feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say ‘enough,’ they are called selfish.”
— Rush Limbaugh

52. “A United States collapse would be much different than a Greece collapse. Greece can collapse, and there’s a ripple. We collapse, and the world feels it.”
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53. “We’ve defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we’ll watch it.”
— Rush Limbaugh

54. “I have to tell you, every day is a roller coaster.”
— Rush Limbaugh

55. “That’s the definition of ‘success’ for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.”
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56. “The only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they’re not liberals.”
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57. “This is a hallmark trait of the left. There is never any effort to elevate anybody. Liberalism is all about tearing down. Liberalism is all about lowering. It is all about destroying ’em.”
— Rush Limbaugh

58. “Feminists want to be treated as equals, but at the same time they want special treatment.”
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59. “Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just – he was a worthless shred of human debris…”
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60. “If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer? Wanton little waifs and serfs dependent on the State. Pure and simple.”
— Rush Limbaugh

61. “Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do – let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.”
— Rush Limbaugh

62. “The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”
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63. “Feminism is just a way for ugly women to get into the mainstream of America.”
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64. “Women still live longer than men because their lives are easier.”
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65. “Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don’t doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don’t doubt me.”
— Rush Limbaugh

66. “They’re out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.”
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67. “We’re not sexists, we’re chauvinists – we’re male chauvinist pigs, and we’re happy to be because we think that’s what men were destined to be. We think that’s what women want.”
— Rush Limbaugh

68. “People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner.”
— Rush Limbaugh

69. “The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.”
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70. “Slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.”
— Rush Limbaugh

71. “Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn’t biodegradable? Paper!”
— Rush Limbaugh

72. “Look it, let me put it to you this way. The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”
— Rush Limbaugh

73. “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

74. “I go back and forth as to whether I think Nancy Pelosi’s really this dumb or not. Although, every time I hear her speak I get closer and closer to concluding that she is this dumb.”
— Rush Limbaugh

75. “I am the Doctor of Democracy. I am America’s Truth Detector. And as the Doctor of Democracy, the deal you have with your doctor isn’t changing. You get to keep your doctor. You get to keep your plan. You get to keep your station. Nothing’s changing, and it really never was gonna change.”
— Rush Limbaugh

76. “Cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease. Nothing wrong with saturated fats.”
— Rush Limbaugh

77. “Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?”
— Rush Limbaugh

78. “When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that’s when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect…”
— Rush Limbaugh

79. “I’m a huge supporter of women. What I’m not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women’s movement – especially when walking behind it.”
— Rush Limbaugh

80. “American exceptionalism, in the broad sense, is not a bunch of braggadocious words people say, “Yeah, we’re better people. We have a better country. We are higher class people.” That’s not what it is. America was the exception to the way human beings prior to America, most of which lived.”
— Rush Limbaugh

81. “We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.”
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82. “The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.”
— Rush Limbaugh

83. “What’s the difference between a liberal and a conservative? A liberal will interpret the constitution, a conservative will quote it!”
— Rush Limbaugh

84. “There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?”
— Rush Limbaugh

85. “I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don’t want to be wrong. There’s nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.”
— Rush Limbaugh

86. “Why doesn’t pope say to every Mexican living in America, “Go back to Mexico! That’s your home! Socialism is preferable.” Why does he want them to stay? Because they are going to convert this place, folks. That’s what this is all about.”
— Rush Limbaugh

87. “The truth of anything doesn’t matter anymore. What’s right doesn’t matter. What makes economic common sense doesn’t matter. I’m blue in the face over it.”
— Rush Limbaugh

88. “Holocaust? Ninety million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos – what’s to complain about?”
— Rush Limbaugh

89. “Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.”
— Rush Limbaugh

90. “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 them empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them.”
— Rush Limbaugh

91. “How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that no means yes if you know how to spot it?”
— Rush Limbaugh

92. “Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”
— Rush Limbaugh

93. “Money is the mother’s milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother’s milk of politics.”
— Rush Limbaugh

94. “We’re throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.”
— Rush Limbaugh

95. “There’s nobody who cares more about you than you, and there’s nobody better equipped to take care of you than you.”
— Rush Limbaugh

96. “War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.”
— Rush Limbaugh

97. “Nobody gives you money for nothing, and that’s the lesson with the Clintons. Nobody gives you money because they like you.”
— Rush Limbaugh

98. “He’s one fry short of a Happy Meal.”
— Rush Limbaugh

99. “You just gotta be who you are, and I think it’s time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call ’em gangs.”
— Rush Limbaugh

100. “Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn’t exist.”
— Rush Limbaugh

101. “The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it.”
— Rush Limbaugh

102. “The thought that so many people get their news from social media really is scary.”
— Rush Limbaugh

103. “Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and fathers. A welfare check is not a husband. The state is not a father.”
— Rush Limbaugh

104. “I don’t consider myself an offensive guy. I am just a harmless lovable little fuzzball.”
— Rush Limbaugh

105. “Love is the only human emotion that cannot be controlled.”
— Rush Limbaugh

106. “I’m all for education. Education ideally happens every moment of the day for people. Education is something that should never stop. The Limbaugh Institute, there are no graduates and no degrees ’cause the learning never stops here. You know, education’s a pretty big umbrella.”
— Rush Limbaugh

107. “The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them.”
— Rush Limbaugh

108. “Even when I think I’m wrong I’m right. I am all-knowing.”
— Rush Limbaugh

109. “It’s too easy to find people who’ve failed and are embittered. The best thing you can do is hang around people who’ve succeeded and are happy doing what you want to do. Learn from them.”
— Rush Limbaugh

110. “Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.”
— Rush Limbaugh

111. “Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements.”
— Rush Limbaugh

112. “I think cigars are just a tremendous addition to the enjoyment of life.”
— Rush Limbaugh

113. “Saudi Arabia is militant Islamic extremism, Wahhabi Islam is extreme and violent. These are the people that execute gays. These are the people that stone women who show their face in public. You don’t hear much about it, but it happens.”
— Rush Limbaugh

114. “Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the 1960s. This is all fruit we are reaping from the sexual revolution.”
— Rush Limbaugh

115. “Cap and trade is a sledge hammer to freedom.”
— Rush Limbaugh

116. “Canada has an immigration policy you might want to emulate. They want more skilled and educated immigrants. In fact, that’s all they take. But, see, since nobody’s watching them, and they’re not a superpower, nobody really cares. So they are allowed to act in their best interests.”
— Rush Limbaugh

117. “Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.”
— Rush Limbaugh

118. “I think this reason why girls don’t do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, ‘All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what’s it going to be?’ We all know what was chosen.”
— Rush Limbaugh

119. “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.”
— Rush Limbaugh

120. “I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don’t. I don’t learn anything from it anymore.”
— Rush Limbaugh

121. “Our leaders today cannot be honest about Islam with us. They will not even use the term “Islamic terrorism,” “radical Islam.””
— Rush Limbaugh

122. “If you’re healthy, if you don’t get sick much, if you don’t go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It’s just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.”
— Rush Limbaugh

123. “Global warming, climate change, it’s a total.”
— Rush Limbaugh

124. “Communists disavow the existence of God and religion. They hate it, because it’s a competitor.”
— Rush Limbaugh

125. “Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written.”
— Rush Limbaugh

126. “What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I’m just noting the timing, here.”
— Rush Limbaugh

127. “Liberalism is a scourge. It destroys the human spirit. It destroys prosperity. It assigns sameness to everybody. And wherever I find it, I oppose it.”
— Rush Limbaugh

128. “Young people never do have a clue. There are some young people that do, but they’ve always been the exception. They always all grow up at some point. The problem is that they’re all being indoctrinated by stupid leftists.”
— Rush Limbaugh

129. “The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It’s natural. It’s as natural as the ocean water is.”
— Rush Limbaugh

130. “People are pursuing happiness, but they’re pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don’t know that. They’ve got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what happiness is, and it’s based on what they see on television.”
— Rush Limbaugh

131. “It’s easy to be negative.”
— Rush Limbaugh

132. “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

133. “From 1924 to 1965, 41 years, essentially, there was no immigration. Try telling people that in the midst of this debate and they won’t believe you. They’ll think you’re making it up. They’ll think you’re lying about it.”
— Rush Limbaugh

134. “Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?”
— Rush Limbaugh

135. “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

136. “When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult; it’s an invitation.”
— Rush Limbaugh

137. “The country will survive Obama, but it cannot survive the abject ignorance that elected him.”
— Rush Limbaugh

138. “Citizen service is a repudiation of the principles upon which our country was based. We are all here for ourselves.”
— Rush Limbaugh

139. “Liberals don’t believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there’d be no need for liberalism.”
— Rush Limbaugh

140. “I don’t think looking at things through the prism of fear is going to accomplish anything.”
— Rush Limbaugh

141. “Human nature fascinates me.”
— Rush Limbaugh

142. “There’s a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.”
— Rush Limbaugh

143. “I don’t have time to beat around the bush. The health-care plan as proposed by Mrs. Clinton is socialism. There’s no soft way to peddle it. There is not other way to describe it.”
— Rush Limbaugh

144. “I don’t need equal time, I am equal time!”
— Rush Limbaugh

145. “The Democrats, the left has this 30-year playbook of how to destroy conservatives by simply exposing the horrible, the mean-spirited, insensitive things they say, but that isn’t going to work on Trump the way it works on conservatives, for a whole host of reasons.”
— Rush Limbaugh

146. “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

147. “Really think hard about what you want to do, because when you’re doing what you want to do is probably when you’ll be doing your best. And pray it is not a hobby so they’ll pay you for it.”
— Rush Limbaugh

148. “There is no country on earth that has done more for our own poor and for the poor around the world. We are not the ones that need to be targeted.”
— Rush Limbaugh

149. “You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.”
— Rush Limbaugh

150. “Illegal immigrants are people that have very little education. They are mostly people who are very poor. They arrive needing government assistance from the get-go, and the Democrat Party is right there to provide it, while telling them that the Republican Party wants to kick ’em out.”
— Rush Limbaugh

151. “They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.”
— Rush Limbaugh

152. “[Removed] [Deleted]”
— Rush Limbaugh

153. “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

154. “I want the largest audience I can get, because that’s how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else do I want? Money. I am trying to earn a profit. It’s capitalism.”
— Rush Limbaugh

155. “She sounds like a screeching ex-wife.”
— Rush Limbaugh

156. “Freedom without virtue isn’t freedom – it will eventually destroy a society.”
— Rush Limbaugh

157. “I don’t have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.”
— Rush Limbaugh

158. “People always break the law, but for the most part the rule of law triumphed and illegal immigrants were found and deported. The case was not made for them to stay.”
— Rush Limbaugh

159. “You can go out and you can run ads all day long on Donald Trump and what he says about women, and you haven’t even gotten close to separating his supporters from him, ’cause that’s not why they’re there.”
— Rush Limbaugh

160. “If you hit minorities they’re gonna blame conservatives, Second Amendment, guns, and the terrorists won’t get their due credit. So from now on acts of terror, only hit white people, because hate crimes against them are permitted, and the media will play it up.”
— Rush Limbaugh

161. “If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back.”
— Rush Limbaugh

162. “Obama is a statist. He’s an authoritarian. He doesn’t want to govern; he wants to rule.”
— Rush Limbaugh

163. “Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.”
— Rush Limbaugh

164. “If you compare charitable donations, you name it, religious tithing, giving, Americans trump citizens of the world hands down.”
— Rush Limbaugh

165. “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

166. “I am addicted to prescription pain medication.”
— Rush Limbaugh

167. “The First Amendment doesn’t give anybody the right to be heard. People don’t have to listen to you.”
— Rush Limbaugh

168. “I think clear heads will prevail and the correct enemy will be identified, political enemy will be identified, and efforts will come together to defeat whoever it is they throw up – Democrats, I mean.”
— Rush Limbaugh

169. “Why is freedom such a hard sell? That’s the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That’s something I never thought would happen here.”
— Rush Limbaugh

170. “We’re all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.”
— Rush Limbaugh

171. “There isn’t anything you can expose Trump on that people don’t already know and haven’t already accepted.”
— Rush Limbaugh

172. “If you want a successful marriage, let your husband do what he wants to do.”
— Rush Limbaugh

173. “The Constitution limits the role of government. The Constitution enumerates the freedoms of the people and enforces those freedoms against government, making sure government cannot encroach.”
— Rush Limbaugh

174. “Trump is an internet troll.”
— Rush Limbaugh

175. “Football is like life and I know life.”
— Rush Limbaugh

176. “An undeniable truth is that while Obama and Pelosi and George Soros and whoever else tell you and me to get off oil, they won’t – they’re the elites. They’re smarter, they’re running the world, and they have to be able to get to where they have to go.”
— Rush Limbaugh

177. “Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit; it requires a constant vigilance. It has nothing to do with feelings. Liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make. You just see suffering and say, ‘Oh, I feel so horrible!’”
— Rush Limbaugh

178. “You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people. You’ve heard that old axiom: 5% of the people pull the wagon; 95% are in it.”
— Rush Limbaugh

179. “I’d get up in the morning, get ready to go to school, and I would dread it. I hated it. My mother would have the radio on. And the guy on the radio sounded like he was having so much fun. And I knew, when his program was over, he wasn’t going to go to school.”
— Rush Limbaugh

180. “Peter Schweizer’s book, Clinton Cash, is not discredited. It has been quoted on the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post.”
— Rush Limbaugh

181. “I say what I mean. I don’t speak in code. That’s why I am a star and ace communicator.”
— Rush Limbaugh

182. “I can’t figure Twitter out. The way Twitter is formatted, I can’t tell who is saying something and who’s replying to something. I don’t know who the tweeter is and who’s responding to the twit.”
— Rush Limbaugh

183. “Young people, those who think they’re experts in science, there’s no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation – and whatever man is doing has caused the jet stream to slow down, and that is permitting the polar vortex.”
— Rush Limbaugh

184. “Blaming guns for murder is like blaming forks for obesity.”
— Rush Limbaugh

185. “Today’s Democrat Party believes that distinct American culture is corrupt, biased, racist, sexist, prejudicial, homophobic. There is nothing about it they want to preserve.”
— Rush Limbaugh

186. “If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.”
— Rush Limbaugh

187. “Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There’s not a single law that could be written, that has been written, that could be passed that would stop Omar Mateen from getting a gun and shooting people up.”
— Rush Limbaugh

188. “I think it’s Greek Orthodox – who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to be because we’re not recognizing the dignity of all people.”
— Rush Limbaugh

189. “Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity.”
— Rush Limbaugh

190. “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

191. “Most people grow up thinking everybody wants to come to America because America is the sweet spot of the planet. America is the greatest place in the world – which it is – and everybody wants to be here.”
— Rush Limbaugh

192. “Emotional roller coasters tend to emphasize the lows, tend to be more affected by the low, by the dip in an emotional roller coaster than when you are at the peak.”
— Rush Limbaugh

193. “I’m talking about just as an ongoing, everyday matter of daily life, one of the most destructive things if not the most is radical liberalism, leftism. And it is clear that they are making great strides in corrupting once-great institutions and once-great traditions.”
— Rush Limbaugh

194. “We keep waiting for the American people to wake up, and they keep hitting the snooze bar. But something, folks, someday, will wake them up. Of that I’m confident.”
— Rush Limbaugh

195. “We’re led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody’s scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it’s the power structure wherever you happen to be.”
— Rush Limbaugh

196. “You take a 30-year-old. To him, history began the day he was born. He doesn’t know how cold it was 70 years ago unless he’s told. He doesn’t care. He thinks what’s happening now is either the best or the worst, whatever it is, ever. Everybody thinks that.”
— Rush Limbaugh

197. “Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side’s claims.”
— Rush Limbaugh

198. “Most people have this protective view of the presidency. Anybody who holds the office is always gonna get the benefit of the doubt unless the media spends four years destroying them like they did Bush, and with Bush not returning fire.”
— Rush Limbaugh

199. “If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that’s when you become the enemy.”
— Rush Limbaugh

200. “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