Rush Limbaugh Quotes

[Donald] Trump's establishing his bona fides on military preparedness. No histrionics, just the facts.

We had 600 ships, a 600 ship Navy under [Ronald] Reagan. We're down to 200 now [in 2016].

[Donald] Trump is speaking in Philadelphia on military matters. He's doing quite well. I want to join a little bit of this in progress just to give you a flavor for how Trump is sounding.

My point, they [Trump's followers] still don't care. They're going to stick with him no matter what.

In the first place, I don't think [Donald] Trump has changed that much from what em. I never took him serious highway this [immigration policy].

When people don't want 'em, when they profit from the division, however, be it politically or financially, that's when I abhor it.

People are mean to each other.

We're never gonna move forward if we can't let go of things, especially things that don't happen to people today.

A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans.

Ford O'Connell, the guy in the sound bite we just played, he's the guy who said that nominating a conservative presidential candidate would just postpone the GOP nightmare.

Conservatism's not the answer. The Republican Party has to reach out, moderate and modify its views to be able to accommodate radical Democrats, minorities, and so forth.

Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing.

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.

Hillary's [Clinton] been doing a good job of portraying [Donald] Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament.

I would love for Hillary's [Clinton] massive ad campaign to be pointless and worthless. I would love for it to bomb out.

We're talking tens of thousands, millions, nobody gives you that kind of money without an expectation for it. It has to be paid back somehow. You pay it back with policy.

Nobody gives you money for nothing, and that's the lesson with the Clintons. Nobody gives you money because they like you.

I wouldn't want to spend every waking hour asking people for money. A, I can't do it, it's just not my nature.

All it takes is Harry Reid saying a friend told him [Mitt] Romney hadn't paid his taxes in ten years and it's over. But these kinds of things aren't gonna work on [Donald] Trump.

[Donald] Trump, whether he designed it or not, happens to be the first thing in the news on UK soil the day after the Brexit vote.

[Mitt] Romney did not have and never did have a large group of supporters that were personally attached, connected, and loyal to him.

It is wonderful to be in solidarity with another big group of people.

The Republican Party may be forever reconstituted and changed, which may not be a bad thing either, in and of itself.

The Democrats have to be stopped and that's going to be what ultimately brings us everybody back to sobriety here.

I think we're going to have a nominee, whoever it is, and we'll have support for the nominee.

Ted Cruz just in a different league. He understands conservatism because he is.

At one point, Donald Trump even had to say, yes, whatever Ted Cruz said, I agree with.

I saw, he was in a different league on a different planet. Everybody says we need substance in these debates, you've got it. You've got it from [Ted] Cruz.

Ted Cruz is tailored his message for a specific conservative evangelical. I think it's limited his appeal. I think he has the ability to appeal to everybody.

Marco [Rubio] now is attached to that establishment. I don't see his future, not in this particular cycle.

When [Marco] Rubio won the election, he was a Tea Party darling, he was a Tea Party favorite. What happened? "Gang of Eight".

[The American people] would rather invest in themselves than listen to a bunch of people in Washington who do not have a record of fixing anything.

You don't win everything. And you ultimately have to take what you get. I think on the case of [Donald] Trump, there's a much bigger upside than down side.

I'm like anybody else that's in media. I've got my opinions. I share them. I'm not afraid of them.

I would feel much the way I feel when anybody is elected. You deal with what you end up getting.

Republican primary voters, whether they're close primaries or open, are voting for anybody but candidates attached to the Republican establishment.

None of what we [as country] have done is credited. None of the good works. Our foreign affairs budget, foreign aid budget, none of it is ever thanked.

The United States is guilty. We're not treating people fairly. We're not treating people with dignity. Building a wall is an affront and an insult, and we have no right.

Donald Trump did question Ted Cruz's evangelical credentials. Remember when Trump said, "How can somebody who lies as much as Ted Cruz lies be an evangelical Christian?"

I've been around so long, I can remember when it was a rhetorical question to ask, "Is the pope Catholic?" Now it's a legit question.

What they want can never work. Their dreams can never even get close to reality. Their hopes can never, ever be realized. It isn't humanly possible for liberalism to succeed.

My primary objective, my desire would be to see the Democrat Party get shellacked in every election, to never see the Democrats ever win one again, as currently constituted.

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.

They [leftists] are outraged when people are not cranky and not miserable. They want everybody to be, if they are. It isn't fair that some people should be enjoying life when other people don't.

I mean, I don't care what Drive-Bys write about local issues and all that. But I'm talking about this kind of stuff, national issues of great importance. I do not believe.

I collect cigars. I love giving 'em away to people that really enjoy 'em, and I could think of no better place than West Point!

The Democrats are having all kinds of problems uniting people here, and Barack Obama is the lead unifier, and it ain't going to happen.

You ever want to know what consensus and groupthink and conventional wisdom in Washington is, just find what David "Rodham" Gergen is saying and you'll find out what 99% of 'em are thinking.

Both parties want it now. They want comprehensive immigration reform, and they want open borders.

Republicans are being loyal to their donors. They're being loyal to the paymasters, if you will. And it's squandering an opportunity.