Top 30 Eric Bolling Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.”

— Eric Bolling

2. “Instead of building housing in a wealthy neighborhood and saying, here you go, here’s some under the market which will, by the way, drop the market for everyone’s housing. Go into the lower income neighborhoods and say, here’s a business incentives, so that people can get jobs.”

— Eric Bolling

3. “When people don’t comply, things – bad things will happen afterwards.”

— Eric Bolling

4. “Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you’ll succeed. Can I just add, take a job that you enjoy. If you don’t enjoy the job, it’s going to be a decade of hell.”

— Eric Bolling

5. “Politicians saying one thing and doing another, celebrities though are some of the worst offenders.”

— Eric Bolling

6. “Put the walls up. Get the better walls. There’s no reason the army website should be hacked.”

— Eric Bolling

7. “We’re not going to default. We just won’t default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don’t raise the debt ceiling, and even if you don’t fund the government.”

— Eric Bolling

8. “President Obama promised to usher in a new era of civility in our political discourse. We should make sure that, quote, “talk to each other in ways that heal, not in ways that wound,” close quote.”

— Eric Bolling

9. “Here’s the thing: We have plenty of time. These are cockroaches and we want to kill them all. They’re just absolute pieces of garbage and we will get them. So why don’t we try the air campaign first?”

— Eric Bolling

10. “If Hillary Clinton wants to win the White House, she’s gonna have to convince Americans they can trust her and if you seen the polls, they don’t. There’s one American who has faith in her, her husband Bill.”

— Eric Bolling

11. “And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion – well, that would be zero.”

— Eric Bolling

12. “Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.”

— Eric Bolling

13. “What we’re not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest.”

— Eric Bolling

14. “Global warming is not a threat. It’s not a real threat. It’s not a credible threat. It’s not an imminent threat. ISIS is.”

— Eric Bolling

15. “Animals are so beautiful. Why does an American dentist need to go to Africa to kill them? Look, I get it. You’re a hunter? Go kill a deer and eat it or a bear where there’s a lot of them. But I just don’t get it.”

— Eric Bolling

16. “A lot of people love Marco Rubio but they’re gonna have – they also love Jeb Bush. They are having a hard time trying to figure out how they gonna – you know, figure that one out.”

— Eric Bolling

17. “I also point out that the Democrat senator from Maryland, called the Tea Party, teabaggers.”

— Eric Bolling

18. “The reason why rappers are living in – you know, driving in Mercedes-Benz’s and living in neighborhoods is because they’re selling their music, not just to the black community, but to the white community.”

— Eric Bolling

19. “President Obama, right after the Gabby Gifford shooting said we need to usher in a new era of civil discourse in politics. But not heeding his own advice.”

— Eric Bolling

20. “You could pay a fair market price for a barrel of oil and cut 50 cents a barrel or a dollar barrel off what you’re going to pay Mexico and use that money and put it towards to the building a wall. If they don’t like it, too bad we’re go buy the oil.”

— Eric Bolling

21. “Hezbollah, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, they all have ties to Iranian money. I think they are the biggest exist – existential threat. Russia could be up there, but it would probably be to one of our NATO allies rather than the homeland.”

— Eric Bolling

22. “A lot of unions are doing the same thing on the left that the NRA is doing on the right.”

— Eric Bolling

23. “In honor of Al Gore, green tea, not Tea Party, but Al Gore green tea. And by the way, it’s tree hugger-approved.”

— Eric Bolling

24. “There are so many numerical financial flaws in ObamaCare. Young people realize I’ll take the penalty. I’ll deal with whatever it takes for the next couple of years. Maybe a couple years down the road, they will start to pay.”

— Eric Bolling

25. “People with felony convictions – pending felony convictions should not be able to buy gun, but they should be able to stay in sanctuary cities, if they’re illegal, if they cross the border.”

— Eric Bolling

26. “When other presidents used the executive pen, they used to it for things like should we lower the flag at half mast for someone who died and things like that. When President Obama uses it, he changes the way America does business.”

— Eric Bolling

27. “Whether they did or didn’t, America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don’t remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.”

— Eric Bolling

28. “Isn’t that what our job to do is right there in media to discuss what politicians are doing so they stop doing it.”

— Eric Bolling

29. “I’d never want to have a gun. I don’t think we need guns in this country and I hate it, and I think the NRA is a disaster area.”

— Eric Bolling

30. “And there are a lot of groups or mayors that might say, hey, I need the money. I have budget deficit, so I have to do it and they do it. It doesn’t matter what the community wants or where the money comes from?”

— Eric Bolling

31. “American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don’t really get them that.”

— Eric Bolling

32. “What’s the legacy of President Obama? I think this is just another, another example of passing the buck. It never stops at the White House.”

— Eric Bolling

33. “The idea of “merit” – so fundamental to the American system of government and culture – is based on a simple formula: People should succeed based on their own skills, talents, and efforts, not because it makes somebody “feel good” or because of some arbitrary societal or governmental standard.”

— Eric Bolling

34. “Instead of challenging the status quo and trusting in your own abilities, they would rather you trust in government.”

— Eric Bolling