Top 500 Rush Limbaugh Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Obama isn’t just too big to fail. He’s too big to know. Obama is so vital to the country and to the world, he must be kept out of the loop in order to save him from his failed presidency.”

— Rush Limbaugh

252. “By the way, if socialism is so damn hot, why doesn’t the pope ask all Mexicans to return home? If capitalism is such a bad thing, why doesn’t the pope say to every Cuban living in America, “Get the hell back to Cuba”?”

— Rush Limbaugh

253. “Donald Trump happened to be in Scotland on the very day, the morning after the Brexit vote. He’s there to open his golf course in Turnberry, and, lo and behold, the first thing he talked about was not the Brexit vote.”

— Rush Limbaugh

254. “You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life, so I need to tell you that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication.”

— Rush Limbaugh

255. “I think passion is the magnet to anything.”

— Rush Limbaugh

256. “Admitted to Playboy in 1993 that he smoked marijuana twice.”

— Rush Limbaugh

257. “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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

258. “The Democrats have to be stopped and that’s going to be what ultimately brings us everybody back to sobriety here.”

— Rush Limbaugh

259. “The Republican Party, I really believe, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from years and years of bullying and taunting. The Republican Party is Jonathan Martin. The Democrat Party and the media are Richie Incognito.”

— Rush Limbaugh

260. “I sometimes wish I weren’t as logical as I am and I wish I weren’t as smart as I am, because I’d be happy.”

— Rush Limbaugh

261. “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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

262. “I’ll say something else about Christine O’Donnell. You ready? I’d rather look at her than Mike Castle. I think she’s kind of cute. I think she’s kind of refreshing. She’s a conservative. What’s the problem?”

— Rush Limbaugh

263. “Erdogan wants an old-fashioned Islam, if you will, for lack of a better term.”

— Rush Limbaugh

264. “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.”

— Rush Limbaugh

265. “Why would we expect the French to fight to liberate the Iraqis when they wouldn’t fight to liberate themselves?”

— Rush Limbaugh

266. “One thing that I don’t know if people have come to grips with yet is just how serious ISIS is, just how serious militant Islamists are about Sharia. There is no compromise. There is no halfway. There is no mutual cohabitation plan.”

— Rush Limbaugh

267. “There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and should have been saying ‘I hope this guy fails’ right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along.”

— Rush Limbaugh

268. “Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.”

— Rush Limbaugh

269. “Ted Cruz is a nice guy, a likeable guy. He’s not crazy. He’s not nasty. And he certainly is not – he’s not a liar. He’s a down – down the middle guy that I – anybody could trust. He has got plenty of integrity.”

— Rush Limbaugh

270. “Why do I think the polls were wrong? People were relying on the pollsters. There was “the Brexit Effect.” I think there’s a Trump Effect, too. I think people are lying to the pollsters about Trump. There isn’t any question about it.”

— Rush Limbaugh

271. “The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.”

— Rush Limbaugh

272. “Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It’s how Obama gets elected, by the way.”

— Rush Limbaugh

273. “Most of my critics don’t even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context.”

— Rush Limbaugh

274. “Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is.”

— Rush Limbaugh

275. “The German birthrate is below replacement levels, meaning the population is shrinking, meaning fewer and fewer people of age to join the labor force.”

— Rush Limbaugh

276. “The silent majority, that’s actually an invention of Richard Nixon’s.”

— Rush Limbaugh

277. “Ladies and gentlemen, the economic disaster, the tailspin, the destruction of the greatest economic engine in the history of the world, these policies of Barack Obama’s, which have led us to this point, are precisely why I fearlessly said and still say, I hope he fails.”

— Rush Limbaugh

278. “We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.”

— Rush Limbaugh

279. “Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American people for his agenda. Obamacare has wiped that out. It really has.”

— Rush Limbaugh

280. “There hasn’t been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn’t been, because that person hasn’t existed anywhere but here.”

— Rush Limbaugh

281. “Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that’s the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.”

— Rush Limbaugh

282. “The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.”

— Rush Limbaugh

283. “Would you pull the lever for yourself, Ben Affleck? What has Barack Obama meant to your movie career, Ben?”

— Rush Limbaugh

284. “So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.”

— Rush Limbaugh

285. “A Democrat hypocrite will never get harmed.”

— Rush Limbaugh

286. “Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help.”

— Rush Limbaugh

287. “The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I’m not saying the Democrats don’t want a strong economy. Don’t misunderstand. They just don’t want it now.”

— Rush Limbaugh

288. “Unions are the result of profit seekers. Unions are the way the average guy gets even with evil corporateers. The unions are godsends. The unions have a special status, because they represent the rising up of the average man against the evil corporateers and profiteers.”

— Rush Limbaugh

289. “I don’t think immigration is what’s happening in our country. I think an invasion is what is happening, particularly southern border.”

— Rush Limbaugh

290. “Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support.”

— Rush Limbaugh

291. “You Know How To Stop Abortion? Require That Each One Occur With A Gun.”

— Rush Limbaugh

292. “Have you noticed that when it comes to immigration we ride herd on legal immigration pretty damn hard, and who is it that really is subject to most of the limits there? Have to say it’s white immigrants.”

— Rush Limbaugh

293. “Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out.”

— Rush Limbaugh

294. “If Romney would go ideological in explaining Obama, it would help. We gotta stop the, ‘He’s a nice guy’ stuff. Nice guys don’t do what Obama is doing. Nice guys don’t say and do and act the way Obama is saying, doing, and acting.”

— Rush Limbaugh

295. “Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn’t allow or disallow. The president can’t buy or purchase.”

— Rush Limbaugh

296. “Wouldn’t it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League’s?”

— Rush Limbaugh

297. “If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it’s Caucasians.”

— Rush Limbaugh

298. “There’s nothing to Obama – nothing but platitudes. When it’s time to get to the substance, we get contradictions and confusions. We don’t think that he knows what he’s talking about because it’s true: He doesn’t.”

— Rush Limbaugh

299. “I think what we’ve had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn’t deserve. The defense carried this team.”

— Rush Limbaugh

300. “In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn’t happening anymore.”

— Rush Limbaugh