Top 500 Rush Limbaugh Quotes (2024 Update)

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?”

— Rush Limbaugh

7. “People who stand in the “middle-of-the-road” get run over.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

10. “No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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. “Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is ‘Wag the Dog.’ Everything is a structured deception.”

— Rush Limbaugh

13. “There’s no such thing as equality. No two people are the same. You will not have the same clothes.”

— Rush Limbaugh

14. “Innocent people never deserve to die no matter what.”

— Rush Limbaugh

15. “Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Rush Limbaugh

17. “Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.”

— Rush Limbaugh

18. “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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

19. “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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

20. “Throwing money at problems never solved anything!”

— Rush Limbaugh

21. “Poverty is not the root cause of crime.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

23. “No two things are equal. No two people are equal. Nobody can guarantee equal outcomes unless everybody’s poor.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

28. “The world’s biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn’t have food shortages.”

— Rush Limbaugh

29. “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

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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

40. “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

41. “Freedom without virtue isn’t freedom – it will eventually destroy a society.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Rush Limbaugh

43. “The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They’re really ignorant.”

— Rush Limbaugh

44. “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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

45. “The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that’s how they want you.”

— Rush Limbaugh

46. “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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

47. “I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.”

— Rush Limbaugh

48. “This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in ‘American Idol’ than in any US election.”

— Rush Limbaugh

49. “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

50. “I thought it was excellent, to tell you the truth.”

— Rush Limbaugh