Top 500 Rush Limbaugh Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.”

— Rush Limbaugh

152. “I don’t have time to beat around the bush. The health-care plan as proposed by Mrs. Clinton is socialism. There’s no soft way to peddle it. There is not other way to describe it.”

— Rush Limbaugh

153. “Illegal immigrants are people that have very little education. They are mostly people who are very poor. They arrive needing government assistance from the get-go, and the Democrat Party is right there to provide it, while telling them that the Republican Party wants to kick ’em out.”

— Rush Limbaugh

154. “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

155. “The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I’m not giving up, and I’m not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.”

— Rush Limbaugh

156. “Human nature fascinates me.”

— Rush Limbaugh

157. “The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.”

— Rush Limbaugh

158. “Really think hard about what you want to do, because when you’re doing what you want to do is probably when you’ll be doing your best. And pray it is not a hobby so they’ll pay you for it.”

— Rush Limbaugh

159. “If you want a successful marriage, let your husband do what he wants to do.”

— Rush Limbaugh

160. “Football is like life and I know life.”

— Rush Limbaugh

161. “If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back.”

— Rush Limbaugh

162. “They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.”

— Rush Limbaugh

163. “There is no country on earth that has done more for our own poor and for the poor around the world. We are not the ones that need to be targeted.”

— Rush Limbaugh

164. “I think clear heads will prevail and the correct enemy will be identified, political enemy will be identified, and efforts will come together to defeat whoever it is they throw up – Democrats, I mean.”

— Rush Limbaugh

165. “I want the largest audience I can get, because that’s how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else do I want? Money. I am trying to earn a profit. It’s capitalism.”

— Rush Limbaugh

166. “We’re all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.”

— Rush Limbaugh

167. “I don’t have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.”

— Rush Limbaugh

168. “The Constitution limits the role of government. The Constitution enumerates the freedoms of the people and enforces those freedoms against government, making sure government cannot encroach.”

— Rush Limbaugh

169. “Trump is an internet troll.”

— Rush Limbaugh

170. “If you hit minorities they’re gonna blame conservatives, Second Amendment, guns, and the terrorists won’t get their due credit. So from now on acts of terror, only hit white people, because hate crimes against them are permitted, and the media will play it up.”

— Rush Limbaugh

171. “You can go out and you can run ads all day long on Donald Trump and what he says about women, and you haven’t even gotten close to separating his supporters from him, ’cause that’s not why they’re there.”

— Rush Limbaugh

172. “An undeniable truth is that while Obama and Pelosi and George Soros and whoever else tell you and me to get off oil, they won’t – they’re the elites. They’re smarter, they’re running the world, and they have to be able to get to where they have to go.”

— Rush Limbaugh

173. “Blaming guns for murder is like blaming forks for obesity.”

— Rush Limbaugh

174. “Obama is a statist. He’s an authoritarian. He doesn’t want to govern; he wants to rule.”

— Rush Limbaugh

175. “When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you’ve got tradition, and on the other hand you’ve got change; in many people’s mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I’m a big tradition guy.”

— Rush Limbaugh

176. “If you compare charitable donations, you name it, religious tithing, giving, Americans trump citizens of the world hands down.”

— Rush Limbaugh

177. “Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.”

— Rush Limbaugh

178. “She sounds like a screeching ex-wife.”

— Rush Limbaugh

179. “I say what I mean. I don’t speak in code. That’s why I am a star and ace communicator.”

— Rush Limbaugh

180. “People always break the law, but for the most part the rule of law triumphed and illegal immigrants were found and deported. The case was not made for them to stay.”

— Rush Limbaugh

181. “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

182. “Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit; it requires a constant vigilance. It has nothing to do with feelings. Liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make. You just see suffering and say, ‘Oh, I feel so horrible!’”

— Rush Limbaugh

183. “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

184. “I am addicted to prescription pain medication.”

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Rush Limbaugh

186. “Why is freedom such a hard sell? That’s the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That’s something I never thought would happen here.”

— Rush Limbaugh

187. “Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity.”

— Rush Limbaugh

188. “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

189. “There isn’t anything you can expose Trump on that people don’t already know and haven’t already accepted.”

— Rush Limbaugh

190. “I can’t figure Twitter out. The way Twitter is formatted, I can’t tell who is saying something and who’s replying to something. I don’t know who the tweeter is and who’s responding to the twit.”

— Rush Limbaugh

191. “We keep waiting for the American people to wake up, and they keep hitting the snooze bar. But something, folks, someday, will wake them up. Of that I’m confident.”

— Rush Limbaugh

192. “Today’s Democrat Party believes that distinct American culture is corrupt, biased, racist, sexist, prejudicial, homophobic. There is nothing about it they want to preserve.”

— Rush Limbaugh

193. “We’re led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody’s scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it’s the power structure wherever you happen to be.”

— Rush Limbaugh

194. “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

195. “You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people. You’ve heard that old axiom: 5% of the people pull the wagon; 95% are in it.”

— Rush Limbaugh

196. “I’d get up in the morning, get ready to go to school, and I would dread it. I hated it. My mother would have the radio on. And the guy on the radio sounded like he was having so much fun. And I knew, when his program was over, he wasn’t going to go to school.”

— Rush Limbaugh

197. “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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

198. “Most people grow up thinking everybody wants to come to America because America is the sweet spot of the planet. America is the greatest place in the world – which it is – and everybody wants to be here.”

— Rush Limbaugh

199. “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

200. “When you talk about taxing the rich, you’re taxing capital, and taxing capital results in damage to more than just the wealthy.”

— Rush Limbaugh