104+ Best Rush Limbaugh Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III is an American radio personality, conservative political commentator, author and former television show host. He is best known as the host of his radio show The Rush Limbaugh Show, which has been in national syndication on AM and FM radio stations since 1988. Profoundly inspirational Rush Limbaugh quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.

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Famous Rush Limbaugh Quotes

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

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. — Rush Limbaugh

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff. — Rush Limbaugh

Football is like life and I know life. — Rush Limbaugh

I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism. — Rush Limbaugh

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

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that’s how they want you. — Rush Limbaugh

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. — Rush Limbaugh

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

You could afford your house without the government if it weren’t for the government. — Rush Limbaugh

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

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

If you commit a crime, you’re guilty. — Rush Limbaugh

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

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

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

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom. — Rush Limbaugh

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

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

Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that. — 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

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

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

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. — Rush Limbaugh

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

Look, 85% percent of Democrats think the economy’s fine. What does that tell you about these people? — 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

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

The administration is out lying through its teeth about all these people signing up and how great Obamacare is now. Meanwhile, Obama continues to break the law each and every day with executive actions – not even executive orders, executive actions – and proclamations. — Rush Limbaugh

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is ‘Wag the Dog.’ Everything is a structured deception. — Rush Limbaugh

That’s the definition of ‘success’ for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective. — Rush Limbaugh

The press has met their Waterloo, and it’s Obama. — Rush Limbaugh

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can’t go on this way, but I’m not sure how many people realize how close we are to the collapse of the U.S. financial system. — Rush Limbaugh

The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit. — Rush Limbaugh

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century. — Rush Limbaugh

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. — Rush Limbaugh

I suppose we’re not supposed to judge people. — Rush Limbaugh

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

I don’t need equal time, I am equal time! — Rush Limbaugh

This Obamacare program has Obama’s name on it. He lied to people for three years about this program. People trusted him. People believed what he told them. They believed that he was going to improve the health care system in this country, and it was going to get cheaper, more affordable, more plentiful. — Rush Limbaugh

Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it’s the objective. — Rush Limbaugh

Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs? — Rush Limbaugh

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That’s when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers. — Rush Limbaugh

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

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

Wouldn’t it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League’s? — Rush Limbaugh

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in ‘American Idol’ than in any US election. — Rush Limbaugh

Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh. — Rush Limbaugh

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. — Rush Limbaugh

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

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

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 Obama camp, the White House, and the media all condemned Romney before they condemned the attacks. Obama thought it more worthwhile to hit Romney for what he was doing than the terrorists for what they did. Romney got hit first. — Rush Limbaugh

Charity is willingly given from the heart. — Rush Limbaugh

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

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

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. — Rush Limbaugh

Compassion is no substitute for justice. — 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

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

Poverty is not the root cause of crime. — Rush Limbaugh

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

Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that’s about it, because everything they do fails. — 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

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

Barack Obama doesn’t think this country should be number one. If it were number 35 it’d be fine with him. — Rush Limbaugh

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

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. — 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

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? — Rush Limbaugh

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

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. — Rush Limbaugh

The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different. — Rush Limbaugh

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

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution. — Rush Limbaugh

Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We’re gonna have QE3. We’re gonna print some more money. — Rush Limbaugh

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

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government. — Rush Limbaugh

Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he’s president? I don’t think it’s a coincidence. — Rush Limbaugh

Government stimulates the democrat party. — Rush Limbaugh

I never, ever have seen media this way. It’s almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It’s making themselves look like utter fools. There’s no journalism, there is no media. There’s pure, full-fledged advocacy here. — Rush Limbaugh

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke. — Rush Limbaugh

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

A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is liberal and attacks conservatives left and right, spouts the right words, they get away with anything. — Rush Limbaugh

The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office. — Rush Limbaugh

The Democrats cannot find Romney fingerprints on what’s happening to this country. Every fingerprint is Barack Obama’s, Joe Biden’s, Nancy Pelosi’s, Harry Reid’s, Barney Frank’s, you name it, Eric Holder. — Rush Limbaugh

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It’s not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy. — 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

Character matters; leadership descends from character. — Rush Limbaugh

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

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes. — Rush Limbaugh

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

As far as I’m concerned, the people who aren’t paying taxes don’t get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth. — Rush Limbaugh