Top 500 Rush Limbaugh Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They’re really ignorant.”

— Rush Limbaugh

52. “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

53. “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

54. “Self-reliance – that’s a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don’t do anything with anybody. They don’t want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one’s life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Rush Limbaugh

56. “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

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

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Rush Limbaugh

59. “The vast majority of the rich in this country did not inherit their wealth; they earned it. They are the country’s achievers, producers, and job creators.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Rush Limbaugh

61. “Liberals talk about the ‘income inequality’ and the ‘unfairness’ and the disparity of the haves and the have-nots in New York City. Who has been running that city for all this time? Who has created the underclass in this country? It’s the Democrat Party.”

— Rush Limbaugh

62. “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

63. “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

64. “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

65. “Why do we start immigration in 1965? Guess whose idea it was? Ted Kennedy. Ted Kennedy, 1965, we needed to reinstitute the immigration laws. It wasn’t based in humanity, although that’s the way it was sold. It was rooted in registering voters.”

— Rush Limbaugh

66. “That’s the definition of ‘success’ for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.”

— Rush Limbaugh

67. “The only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they’re not liberals.”

— Rush Limbaugh

68. “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

69. “Feminists want to be treated as equals, but at the same time they want special treatment.”

— Rush Limbaugh

70. “Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just – he was a worthless shred of human debris...”

— Rush Limbaugh

71. “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

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

— Rush Limbaugh

73. “The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”

— Rush Limbaugh

74. “Feminism is just a way for ugly women to get into the mainstream of America.”

— Rush Limbaugh

75. “Women still live longer than men because their lives are easier.”

— Rush Limbaugh

76. “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

77. “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

78. “They’re out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.”

— Rush Limbaugh

79. “The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.”

— Rush Limbaugh

80. “People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner.”

— Rush Limbaugh

81. “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

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

— Rush Limbaugh

83. “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

84. “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

85. “Cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease. Nothing wrong with saturated fats.”

— Rush Limbaugh

86. “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

87. “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

88. “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

89. “Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?”

— Rush Limbaugh

90. “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

91. “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

92. “We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Rush Limbaugh

94. “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

95. “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

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

— Rush Limbaugh

97. “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

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

— Rush Limbaugh

99. “The thought that so many people get their news from social media really is scary.”

— Rush Limbaugh

100. “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