Quotessence
Home / Authors / Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Talk show host

Filter quotes by topic

AllPeopleThinkingDemocratTrumpIfsClintonWantCountryKnowsRepublicanPartyWayMeanBelieveAmericaMediaWorldTryingBarackCare

Famous Rush Limbaugh Quotes

“Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you have a breakdown of organized society. And there is nothing compassionate about what's happening to the people of Arizona. There is nothing compassionate about the violation of private property rights. There is nothing compassionate about the abuse of the taxpayer. There is nothing compassionate about the closing of schools and hospitals. Nothing at all compassionate about increased drug trafficking and crime. Nothing compassionate about that at all.”

PeopleSchoolLawPoliticalClassRightsCrimeBlessingDrugHappeningsAbusePropertyImmigrationOrganizedHospitalsCompassionateIgnoredPromotionClosingTaxpayersViolationBreakdownPrivate PropertyProperty RightsArizonaTraffickingDrug Trafficking
Author:Rush Limbaugh
Create image

“We are specifically keeping the best and brightest out. It is the dumb and dumbest that we are letting in. Let me rephrase that: It is the ill-educated and the uneducated that we are letting in. The VCs, college graduates, PhDs, you name it, from all over the world, they are limited. The number of people of that caliber - severely limited and tightly controlled.”

PeopleWorldNamesNumbersCollegeLet MeIllImmigrationEducatedDumbControlledGraduatesUneducatedCaliberCollege GraduatesPhds
Author:Rush Limbaugh
Create image

“You've got Hezbollah in Arizona. You've got Mexican drug cartels operating in Arizona. You've got the steady stream of illegals over the border, and you've got people being killed now in Arizona. They are at their wits' end. Enforcing the law is the overall thing, and if there are some civil rights violations, so be it. That's how desperate the situation is. They want the law anyway.”

PeopleIfsWantEndsLawSituationRightsDrugWitImmigrationCivil RightsBordersStreamsDesperateSteadyMexicanViolationArizonaHezbollahCartelsDrug CartelsWits End
Author:Rush Limbaugh
Create image

“Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and self-investment. Instead, people are told that American is unjust, unfair, and full of disadvantages. They are told that their only hope is for government to fix their problems. What has happened is that generations of people have bought into this nonsense and as result have remained hopelessly mired in poverty and despair -- because the promised solutions don't work. And they will never work -- they never have.”

PeopleSelfProblemGovernmentCommunityResultsPovertyGenerationsHappenedDespairSolutionsInvestmentProsperityDependentNonsenseMinoritiesUnfairRoutesUnjustSelf RelianceRelianceDisadvantages
Author:Rush Limbaugh
Create image

“By government giveaway programs, individuals are often hurt far more than they are helped. The recipients of these programs become dependent on the government and their dignity is destroyed. Is it compassionate to enslave more and more people by making them a part of the government dependency cycle? I think compassion should be measured by how many people no longer need it. Helping people to become self-sufficient is much more compassionate than drugging them with the narcotic of welfare.”

PeopleThinkingNeedsShouldSelfHelpingGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsIndividualHurtCompassionProgramEconomicsDignityDestroyedWelfareSufficientDependentCyclesCompassionateHelping PeopleDependencySelf SufficientNarcotics
Author:Rush Limbaugh
Create image

“Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.”

PeopleIfsKnowsCountryUseMightHappensLawOughtDrugSellingNeighborhoodPushingDestroyingAccusedConsumedDrug UseDrug LawsSelling Drugs
Author:Rush Limbaugh
Create image

“It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another crime, and what we ought to do is reduce the heavy sentence so it's more in line with the other. Wrong. In most cases we ought to increase the light sentence and make it compatible with the heavy sentence, and be serious about punishment because we are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country.”

PeopleKindCountryLightLinesCasesCrimeSeriousOughtBecomingIncreaseFolksHeavySentencesPunishmentCompatible
Author:Rush Limbaugh
Create image

“The solution to the nation's problems, depends on the true American achievers. It's people like you, playing by the rules and celebrating and continuing to remind people of the traditions and institutions that made this country great, who can re-create a society that is great once more. It's only by doing the right thing that this country is going to fix itself and survive.”

PeopleMadeCountryProblemNationsLike YouDependsSurvivalSolutionsTraditionInstitutionsCelebrateRight ThingContinuingDoing The Right ThingAchiever
Author:Rush Limbaugh
Create image

“Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts to enrich themselves further. Harlem, East Los Angeles, the South side of Chicago are not the poorest communities in the United States. According to a new U.S. Bureau of the Census report, the poorest communities are Shannon County, South Dakota, followed by Starr, Texas, and Tunica, Mississippi. Have you ever heard of these residents rioting to protest their living conditions?”

PeopleLifeBelieveStatesRealityEvilSidesCommunityPoorUnitedPovertyUnited StatesHeardConditionsCrimeSouthEastCommitReportsProtestLos AngelesWealthyTexasChicagoLinkedPoor PeopleResortsCountyPoorestMississippiResidentsHarlemDakotaCensusSouth DakotaRiotingShannonLiving Conditions
Author:Rush Limbaugh
Create image

“Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.”

PeopleThinkingKnowsStatesReasonMightHoursWorkPoorClassRichWeekMiddleCrimeLogicSellsWorkersAverageCommitTeenagerReason WhyMiddle ClassFortyCracksMinimumFlipRich And PoorMinimum WageHamburgers
Author:Rush Limbaugh
Create image

“These were highly civil comments for crying out loud. I mean, people are going nuts. USA Today, the Politico. And some people were suggesting that my comments were below the belt. Well, take a look at some pictures. Given where she wears her belts. I mean, she wears them high up there around the bust line. Isn't just about everything about her below the belt when you look at the fashion sense she has?”

PeopleWellsLooksMeanTodayGivenLinesFashionStupidCryLoudUsaCommentNutsBeltsHatefulSuggestingMean People
Author:Rush Limbaugh
Create image

“Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know. It's just the first real weekend of summer, three-day weekend and so forth, barbecues, what have you. That's why I think education is important. I'm really glad my dad drilled into me these things that he had lived through and it helped me relate to him better and understand the things he thought were important and why he was raising me the way he was.”

PeopleThinkingKnowsWayFirstsImportantRealReasonThreeDadSummerMy DadGladRelateWeekendFewerMemorialMemorial DayBarbecueEnd Of SummerEducation Is Important
Author:Rush Limbaugh
Create image

“Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people, otherwise they won’t do it on their own,” he added. “It’s taken them 50, 60 years to get to this point of conditioning people, of taking hold of the education system, the university, academia system, the media. It’s taken a long time to condition people not to stand up for themselves, not to exercise freedom, not to speak outside the acceptable norms. What is political correctness but speech censorship, is all it is.”

PeopleWayYearsBelieveLongPoliticalChoicesSpeakLibertyTakenConditionsMediaExerciseSpeechLong TimeUniversityCensorshipAcceptableNormConditioningPolitical CorrectnessEducation SystemAcademiaCorrectnessImposition
Author:Rush Limbaugh
Create image

“I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison.”

PeopleIfsThinkingGovernmentWould BeLawHalfWasteSacredDollarsPrisonCorporationsLazyFraudFederal GovernmentMisuseLazy People
Author:Rush Limbaugh
Create image